Monotonous drops of clamped thoughts
Blasted concrete ideologies;
Dastardly acts of unprovoked dare
Brandishing anew lights the tear;
Lights that provoke and clean the stench;
Strenuous perspiration,
Damp and cloud and fog and mist;
Unchallenged plethora of gullible aspirations
Shrouding myths and truths alike;
Self-annointed paragon and clumsy beatification;
Unfathomable glance at one's bete noire;
Implausible rationalities;
Bestial divinities that teach and taunt
the Fool, the Joker, the Rebel, the Wanderlust.
Friday, 18 January 2008
Monday, 14 January 2008
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
“It takes one to know one. The question is, do you have it what it takes to know me, whatever that means?”
Circa 2006. Bob Dylan is trying to speak some sense into me. He is advising me to stop being a rolling stone. The brightness of my computer monitor is screaming into my face. A dirty keyboard is resting on my lap, and I’m expecting it to turn into a grand piano any moment. Feeling hungry and blue. Hoping for a revolution, or at least a revelation; but expecting none. Maybe the pages that follow will grant my wish.
Before I let words start pouring out of my mouth like streaming bullets out of a Khalashnikov, let me provide a statutory warning. The piece that I have intended to write is my autobiography, though I would prefer to call it an anti-autobiography. This is because, it will contain my story without evidence to corroborate what I say. After all, it is my word against mine as long as I do the writing…and the thinking. However, do not have any grand illusions from the author ‘cos if ever there was a no one, then he is one. So if you are as jobless as the author is, you are advised to park your brain (size doesn’t matter) at the nearest kerb and start reading the crap that is about to follow. And if you are not, then kindly use your good sense and act accordingly.
I’ve always been me. Or so I was led to think by this god-damned mind of mine. But the truth might be a tad different. The single most potent truth is that my name happens to be Shubhajit Lahiri…oh well, screw it, who the hell cares!
Twenty-two years might seem a long time. Ask any captive and he’ll succinctly explain it to you. But it hasn’t seemed too long to me. Maybe it’s because I learnt to appreciate time much later by which time a significant portion of that time had passed. It’s a long time nonetheless.
1984. 2006. Take any calculator, and ya’ll know what I’m blabbering about. That’s twenty-two years for you. In the meantime Soviet Communism turned Chinese, Berlin Wall was breached, the twin WTC towers were grounded by a bunch of Afghani hooligans, a bald-headed guy headed twice and head-butted once while a buck-toothed fellah managed only the former sometime in between, India earned the dubious honour of being home to billion members of the human species…well, the list can go on for a couple of pages. Though thanks to a Bill Gates, there’s isn’t any dearth of space, but I’ll save you all the crap and come straight to the point – yours truly was born and has went on to spend a couple of (not very fruitful) decades on the planet often referred to as earth.
Since this is supposed to be my autobiography or something of that sort, I can’t expect others to do the dirty work for me – supplying dates and incidents to prove my credibility. Facts can often be boring, and I’m sure you won’t care any more than anyone else as to when I became a two-limbed creature from a four-limbed one or for that matter when I first learned to conjure up improbable situations and have a good time with myself. Truly speaking I couldn’t care any more than you about such trivial occurrences. So I’ll skip the details.
Sixteen years before the third millennium, sometime on the 28th of October, a cacophonic wailing was heard at a private nursing home, I presume, to the sheer delight of a lady and a man. Incidentally they are my parents, and only they’ll be able to explain the depth of their joy. I’d rather not play with your tear-buds by trying to explain what a memorable event this was. I was too small then to feel any joy. Consequently I don’t feel any sense of nostalgia either.
I won’t lie about my origins as I’ve nothing to hide. I’m a Hindu Brahmin, whatever that means and anyway I don’t give a horse’s arse as to what entails being a Brahmin. So, even though technically I am a Brahmin ‘cos I’ve had my sacred thread ceremony (for the uninitiated, that’s the Hindu equivalent of baptism for Christians, and well, circumcision for the Muslims), I never feel like one. As coincidence would have it, my mother tongue is Bengali, though I could easily have been French, Japanese or for that matter, Tamilian. Biologically speaking, I’m a male and I’m not open to any debate on that front. I’m not as farsighted as I should be (once again biologically speaking), so my specs act as crutch for me.
Though I’m now old enough to tell a mighty tale out of my sucker of an existence thus far, it was not always so. After all, one doesn’t just end up being twenty two out of nowhere. A time machine might have made matters much simpler. However I’m completely unaware if any mortal has been able to realize the dreams of Messrs. Wells and Einstein. On second thoughts it doesn’t even matter a freaking penny ‘cos I ain’t got enough printed paper to pay for such ostentatiousness. So, understandably, I had to endure (though some may prefer to go for ‘experience’) every moment that went on to be a part of the whole.
However before I manage to arrest anybody’s attention with my life story, though truly speaking it doesn’t have enough crap to really catch anyone by their lapels, let me first give a brief picture of myself to all those unfortunate people who never got to meet me in person. The first thing you’ll notice is that, well, I’m a guy, and I’m sure you won’t need to have x-ray vision of Mr. Clark Kent to realize that. The next thing you might notice is that I wear specs. Though I’m far from being blind as a bat, my normal vision will not earn me any kudos from the house physician. So I’m forced to employ my twin-lens as a two-legged crutch rather than a twin-engine chopper. I happen to be fair – not as in fair and lovely, but as in skin colour. However, let me refrain from going into any detail on that front lest any psychoanalyst misconstrue my statements and call me a racist.
I am moderately tall by Indian standards. I guess that can be extended to few other country standards as well. I am broad by, well, any standards. However, a surrealist would observe that the earth has greater attraction for me than many others ‘cos gravitational force (read – attraction) is explicitly related with weight. I have everything that any normal male belonging to human species would have, both external like fingers (yup, that one too), limbs and torso, and internal – though I wouldn’t be able to confirm that right now but I sure feel that I am not missing out on anything inside my skeleton. And if ever a poll is conducted to rate looks, I would get only as many votes as any Regular Joe would get. Even if that turns out to be a conservative analysis, I assure you I am not being modest. So people look at me only when they need to. After all only a blind or a hopelessly vain person would speak to you staring at the sky.
I’m sure you have understood by now that I ain’t no superhero (read freak) out of Marvel comic strip. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth, ‘cos I am just another guy residing on this planet, or more specifically, in India. So if you had been patiently waiting to know more about some alter ego of mine, I am happy to disappoint you. And neither do you get any cookies if you had realized long back what I explicitly stated above.
Now let me tell you what I have learnt so far. Apart from the fact that India is a country and Pakistan is its neighbour (yeah I know, even at the risk of sounding overtly jingoistic, that was an age-old juxtaposition of good and evil), I have become aware of quite a few other things. In the same way that I didn’t have to consult the geography textbook used during my school days to know about India and Pakistan, I don’t need to read Kama Sutra to know what love, and well, sex means. There are certain things that one doesn’t need to be spoon fed.
Love, as abstract and unfathomable might the word sound, is as close to the proletariat as it is to the poet. Consequently a poet may compose a stirring ode to the bounties ushered by even the faintest brush of love, even someone belonging to the working class can appreciate and even detest the virtues and vagaries of love. I do not belong to either of the two groups ‘cos I lie sandwiched like a sausage somewhere in between. However, like any other fellow member of my species, I too know a thing or two about this famous and at times infamous four letter word.
I have had crushes; but somehow, despite not so valiant efforts by me, I also managed to remain healthy and uncrushed. And then I made the fatal error (figuratively speaking) of falling in love. There comes lot of times when odds are firmly against you and your agent would strongly advise you not to play into it. And you refrain from throwing in your hat ‘cos you know he is right. But then ask any poker player and you’ll know there also comes times, few as they might be, when one plays his card even though he knows that he is playing against the percentages. He does it not because he lost his rationale, but because he can’t help doing it. It’s like reaching a cul-de-sac and yet you aren’t allowed to turn back ‘cos there are bloodhounds waiting at the other end.
So I fell in love, and I fell hard. And know what, it wasn’t my ass that suffered because of that fall. Another place and another time, I might have shown better sense. But then, as I said, it was one of those times. It’s another matter that I still haven’t managed to climb my way up. I am thus like the chicken for slaughter who knows sooner or later its going to be his time. Or perhaps, returning back to the poker analogy, I’m like the player, who even though he has everything to lose, plays his last card and goes for broke; but he realizes a tad too late that his trump card was actually the weakest link in his armour. On second thoughts he could have played safe and escaped unhurt, but then in life, as in most things, second thoughts matter little after you have won it all or lost it all. I too played my card, and then I realized I wasn’t a poker player in the first place. But then, I guess, I’ll survive and hope I still have an ace (or two) up my sleeve.
Talking about love, I’m reminded of lust. Now lust is as interesting as love, though not as abstract. I happen to be a very ‘normal’ male, especially by Indian sensibilities. Consequently, you might find me happy at times, and sad at times; but I solemnly assure you, you’ll never find me ‘gay’. Now, once I start talking about lust, after a while I might start loosing control of my internal censor board and end up violating the Indecency Act of Indian Telecommunications. So I’ll save that part of me for a more appropriate time and place. A typed sheet written in legible English and observable to many is hardly one.
Friendship – that’s the final chapter of the trilogy of human relationships that are not tailor-made in advance, rather develop on the course of one’s journey that is life. We the humans deserted the jungles and started living in societies long back. At least I live in one ‘cos I ain’t no Robinson Crusoe. It’s another matter though that even Crusoe had his Man Friday. Acquaintances, thus, are inevitable; but friendship – not necessarily so. I too have made a large number of acquaintances and a few friends. I am not a very social creature, but I know a friend when I see one.
The most amazing part of this earth-bound bondage is that no two friendships are alike. There’s one person with whom I can share the intricacies of my personal love for female and films like with no other. There’s another person with whom I can speak and talk and chat without a care for time and space. There’s a third person who is such an uncomplicated being that I can inject humour in the simplest of activities and topics. There’s a fourth person who has such profound belief in me that makes me wonder at myself at times. There’s a fifth who is so close to me at times and so distant at others. Twenty years hence I do not know what friendship will mean to me even though I might still know the meaning of friendship (no pun intended). I only hope that at such a time I won’t have to taste bitter water in a smoky joint while admiring the design of the glass container all the time.
Now you might want to know which schools I attended and what all subjects I studied. You might also want to know what I learnt and what I did not. Statistics act as great levelers, but at the end of the day they hardly matter. So I’ll continue to abide by the rule that I formulated for this piece – I shall not bore you with facts even if you want to be. I am not much into rules and regulations, so I have decided to truly surprise myself on this present occasion.
I’ll say you this, I have had two alma maters so far. As a kid I did attend a third institution (that is figuratively speaking ‘cos literally speaking it was the first). But apart from its name and its interior design I don’t have much to remember it with. So I’ll stick to the following two that came chronologically one after the other – school and college. Names hardly matter; so I’ll stick with the general terms without illuminating your holiness with sugar-coated specifics.
I started attending school at a young age; though, as coincidence would have it, so did all my school mates, barring maybe a few exceptions. For a civil engineer our school might represent just another fine piece of construction. The owners of the school might have earned a few bucks (times a large factor), which I presume they still do. But the joys of life almost always lie in the small inconsequential details. Similarly, our school was more than a stone façade for me. Every single component – the class rooms, the blackboards, the playgrounds, the teachers, the students, and even the trigger happy principal – they all played enormous roles.
I was a naïve blue-eyed kiddo when I first stepped into the edifice. When I left through the gate for the final time, I was a matured young man. More than a decade passed in between. That’s hell of a long time. A few years here and there and you’ve got a life sentence in an Indian penitentiary. But the walls, however insurmountable, and the discipline, however unbearable, could never obliterate the simple truth that the school and the various ingredients that it comprised of made a lasting impression on me. These impressions are not visible on a mirror because even the ultimate Saint-Gobain mirror would never succeed in providing a reflection of our soles.
My college is as different from school as cheese is from chalk, though I choose not to opine as to which is what. To start with, more than a thousand kilometers separate the two. While the former took my forefinger and brought me closer to myself, the latter shook me by my sleeves and advised me to take a step or two away at times. And, in contrasting styles, both have captured a huge piece of my heart and a large chunk of my brain.
College life is as great as it differs from school life. The academics exist, so does the attendance. But the similarity ends there. For the first time in my life I was free of petty bondages. Living in hostel isn’t exactly living at home; but then, neither is the reverse true. Each resides at its place. College life didn’t just teach me new means of ‘bunking’ class and having fun (as in having fun, and not as in being on a high), it enabled me to have experiences – ranging from trivial to terrific – which are difficult for me to elaborate and impossible for you to comprehend. Neither one needs to be a religious symbologist nor a conspiracy theorist to know what I mean. The only prerequisite, I feel, is that he must not be an outright stupid. But then, as Forest Gump might have enlightened you, even fools have the ability to feel and treasure stuff. Who knows, I might just be another faceless fool in the teeming crowd or a joker in an amusement park. As Dylan once complained through a song of his, there’s a fool on your left and a joker to your right. You might recognize me if you bothered looking one way or the other.
You know by now, provided you had enough patience and ability to digest bull-shit, where I studied and what acquaintances I have made. So now you know how I got to be what I am. Well, if you indeed have, do send me a note ‘cos I myself haven’t managed to figure it out. However on second thoughts, don’t bother lifting your posterior up from the cushion beneath, as I seem to be better off not knowing stuff that I haven’t already. As some like-minded guy has said, where ignorance is bliss, better remain one.
How can this piece, if ever there was one, be complete without mentioning what I like and what I don’t. However since the latter would easily outweigh the former, I’ll stick to the liking part. But I won’t give myself carte blanche since there might be things which I might not want you to know…hell, which you too wouldn’t want to know. I’ll stick to things which will not titillate the high sense of ethics of the many moral polices (read constables) who reside in a country of exquisite morals and high ethics called India; people who have taken upon themselves the pious honour of undertaking a crusade against scum like me whose brains are far more polluted than the `holy’ water of the Ganges. It’s another matter though that given a gun, I would have blown their heads off without having to answer to my conscience as to the reasons for my committing such un-Indian acts.
Like a normal guy I like listening to music, watching movies and reading novels, though not necessarily in that order. On this present occasion, I have made this assumption that being normal entails that he is not deaf, blind or illiterate. The United Nations might beg to differ on my definition of a normal guy as it might put their noble acts in jeopardy, but right now I’m in no mood to be preached out of my seemingly Rightist stance (though I solemnly assure you I ain’t one) by any tough sun of a gun.
Talking about something as abstract as music is indeed a difficult task. I am no Tansen or Beethoven, so you might feel my words would lack credibility. But then, in all probability, so would yours. So let me not procrastinate and take the audacious plunge. I have ears, so I can hear sound. I also have a developed human brain as I’m led to believe, so I can discern between music and noise. I agree I am no connoisseur of any form of art, leave alone music, so I won’t wear the garb of one. But I’m entitled to my views and my right to opine, which the makers of the Constitution have bestowed on its hundred crore population.
I have far more respect for people who have the ability to put words on a blank sheet and then turn that into a music piece even though they might not be able to sing like a ‘nightingale’ (pun intended). So a songwriter is far more talented than a crooner who simply employs his (or her) vocal cords to make a song audible to everyone in the audience. Consequently, an Anjan Dutt or a Bob Dylan or a Paul Simon or a James Heitfield or the Lennon-McCartney duo, to me, represents music, while the Lata Mangeshkars of this world are no different from a postman, delivering an already composed piece to us. However that doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t listen to a Frank Sinatra or a Manna Dey song being aired on the radio. I sure appreciate a mellifluous voice when I hear one. Anyway, just for the record, I like rock, metal, folk, folk/rock, ballads, country, jazz, soul, blues, acoustics, instrumentals, R&B, and a bit of heavy metal, pop, punk, hip hop, rap, retro, Latin, techno-fusion and western classical. I abhor acid because, like superman, my ears are not attuned shrill noise, and dislike Indian classical, as it has, with all due respect, the uncanny ability to lull me to sleep.
If I say I like cinema that would be an understatement. Apart from chick-flicks and soppy song-and-dance tear-jerkers a la Karan Johar, you give me anything and I’ll gobble it up. Yes, I’d unabashedly call myself a cineaste, even at the risk of being lampooned by the intellectuals, and a cinephile, at the risk of being lambasted by the conservative elders. Consequently Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Casablanca, On the Waterfront, Fight Club, Gold Rush, Aranyer Din Ratri, Nayak, Calcutta ’71, Sholay et al have provided me with joy and wonder in equal proportions, while Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, Veer Zara and the likes make me realize that the good, the bad and the ugly must all be allowed a place in the sun.
Once upon a time I was like the average movie-goer who watches movies to be entertained, for whom watching the movie is as enjoyable as a packet full of popcorns. And then, a single book, and a not too thick one at that, written by one of the great geniuses of this field – Satyajit Ray (who I like to call the single greatest genius of post-independent India), brought about a drastic transformation in my perspectives vis-à-vis the movies, in the process leaving a lasting impression in me. For me, cinema stopped being just a source of entertainment. It suddenly attained the ability to be called one of the two or three greatest forms of art. In fact, no other form of art has experienced such meteoric growth, has touched so many millions, has associated with it such a huge business, has necessitated so much labour and has incorporated so much science and technology as the medium called cinema. From the German Expressionism to the French Nouvelle Vague, from the Italian neo-realism to the American film noir, from the Soviet montage to the Danish Dogme 95, from the Bombay dream factory to the New York underground movement, from the arthouse and avant-garde to the mainstream, from Spielberg to Scorcese to Tarantino, cinema is one hell of an invention. And I, for one, am sure hooked onto it like wanderlust in the journey of a lifetime. Films have captured my heart and liberated my soul.
And, finally books, which completes my trilogy of arts. Incidentally, this happens to be the second, and fortunately final, trilogy of sorts being mentioned in this piece. Now I haven’t read Cervantes or Chaucer or Homer as yet. I’ve just about had glimpse of Shakespeare, Dickens and Tagore. So I’m sure you’ll agree, as I myself would, of the three arts books are the one I’m least qualified to blabber about. But I’ll blabber nonetheless.
I like reading. I have read trash and I have read some real classics, underrated though. In fact, my version of a classic would hardly make the list of “100 Greatest Books Ever Written”. But then I don’t read books that are usually employed to act as designer labels in one’s book-shelves – in the same capacity as the rich people use Armani and Omega to prove to their fellow human beings that they are indeed rich. Rather, I read books that I can personally relate to, books that act as a shadow of my life or that of my many alter-egos. I like books which are intense, I like books which are lyrical; but I don’t like books which try too hard to please me or try to titillate my tear buds. I’m not yet as unscrupulous with books as I’m with films; perhaps because unlike films, which I can watch objectively, more often than not I get subjectively involved while reading books. I’m not saying what I do is right; I’m saying that what I do isn’t wrong either. Maybe things ought to change, maybe they will, maybe they won’t, I am not promising anything – at least not to the bum typing this gibberish in the name of an autobiography. The crux of the matter is I like calling myself a bibliophile, irrespective of whether you qualify me as one.
I have told you more about myself than I ever intended to. In case you feel I haven’t told everything that is there to know or I haven’t been brutally honest, you are absolutely right. After all, where’s the fun in revealing everything? An air of mystery and darkness makes this effort of mine all the more worthwhile. I am all that I have told in the electronic pages above. But then, with all due respect, I’m much more than that – more than you will ever know, and perhaps I will ever tell you. And anyway, in life, as in many other things, the total is often greater than the sum of the parts. Sounds clichéd? The fact is I deliberately used an overtly hackneyed statement ‘cos at times an overused statement as that can be more eloquent than something that might otherwise seem more original.
But life, as they say, will go on – i.e., assuming I don’t get hit by a truck first thing tomorrow morning. I’m an atheist, so I won’t say “god forbid”; but I hope I end up living longer than that. I hope, by the time I start composing an obituary for myself, I succeed in forming views and opinions on more than just a few stray things here and there. It’s another matter that I don’t need to hope anything ‘cos if I live long enough, I’ll surely have formed opinions on various things to say the least. So wish me long life at your own risk. Either way, I’ll say “god bless you”; I was just speaking figuratively ‘cos I’m still an atheist.
Circa 2007. Silence pervades me. Deafening silence, as the famous oxymoron goes. The New Year had promised me lots. But that’s okay, ‘cos that’s one trend I’m completely used to. Simon and Garfunkel have just sung to me the sounds of silence. There’s an eerie tranquility in the air. And suddenly the combined team of Metallica has broken my peace. I have been caught by my collars and made to realize the ever-pervading necessity to turn the page whenever fate stops playing the harp of time, or my fingers rebel at the grand piano that is resting on my lap – the keyboard. So let me stop.
p.s. in case you managed to devour every syllable of this self proclaimed magnum opus of mine, I’m sure you’d have realized by now you’re none the wiser for it. And if you have skipped words and/or sentences while your fingers moved the scroll bar down, I must admit you are one hell of a smart ass. Just remember one thing, it’s either my way or the high way. And do me a favour, save your monologue about my alleged autobiography for some other time, unless of course you think it calls for verbal champagne. So amigos, goodbye, au revoir, adieu, adios, auf wiedersehen, tata, and my favourite of ‘em all, so long sucker. Meet you in hell ‘cos that’s where I’m headed to.
Circa 2006. Bob Dylan is trying to speak some sense into me. He is advising me to stop being a rolling stone. The brightness of my computer monitor is screaming into my face. A dirty keyboard is resting on my lap, and I’m expecting it to turn into a grand piano any moment. Feeling hungry and blue. Hoping for a revolution, or at least a revelation; but expecting none. Maybe the pages that follow will grant my wish.
Before I let words start pouring out of my mouth like streaming bullets out of a Khalashnikov, let me provide a statutory warning. The piece that I have intended to write is my autobiography, though I would prefer to call it an anti-autobiography. This is because, it will contain my story without evidence to corroborate what I say. After all, it is my word against mine as long as I do the writing…and the thinking. However, do not have any grand illusions from the author ‘cos if ever there was a no one, then he is one. So if you are as jobless as the author is, you are advised to park your brain (size doesn’t matter) at the nearest kerb and start reading the crap that is about to follow. And if you are not, then kindly use your good sense and act accordingly.
I’ve always been me. Or so I was led to think by this god-damned mind of mine. But the truth might be a tad different. The single most potent truth is that my name happens to be Shubhajit Lahiri…oh well, screw it, who the hell cares!
Twenty-two years might seem a long time. Ask any captive and he’ll succinctly explain it to you. But it hasn’t seemed too long to me. Maybe it’s because I learnt to appreciate time much later by which time a significant portion of that time had passed. It’s a long time nonetheless.
1984. 2006. Take any calculator, and ya’ll know what I’m blabbering about. That’s twenty-two years for you. In the meantime Soviet Communism turned Chinese, Berlin Wall was breached, the twin WTC towers were grounded by a bunch of Afghani hooligans, a bald-headed guy headed twice and head-butted once while a buck-toothed fellah managed only the former sometime in between, India earned the dubious honour of being home to billion members of the human species…well, the list can go on for a couple of pages. Though thanks to a Bill Gates, there’s isn’t any dearth of space, but I’ll save you all the crap and come straight to the point – yours truly was born and has went on to spend a couple of (not very fruitful) decades on the planet often referred to as earth.
Since this is supposed to be my autobiography or something of that sort, I can’t expect others to do the dirty work for me – supplying dates and incidents to prove my credibility. Facts can often be boring, and I’m sure you won’t care any more than anyone else as to when I became a two-limbed creature from a four-limbed one or for that matter when I first learned to conjure up improbable situations and have a good time with myself. Truly speaking I couldn’t care any more than you about such trivial occurrences. So I’ll skip the details.
Sixteen years before the third millennium, sometime on the 28th of October, a cacophonic wailing was heard at a private nursing home, I presume, to the sheer delight of a lady and a man. Incidentally they are my parents, and only they’ll be able to explain the depth of their joy. I’d rather not play with your tear-buds by trying to explain what a memorable event this was. I was too small then to feel any joy. Consequently I don’t feel any sense of nostalgia either.
I won’t lie about my origins as I’ve nothing to hide. I’m a Hindu Brahmin, whatever that means and anyway I don’t give a horse’s arse as to what entails being a Brahmin. So, even though technically I am a Brahmin ‘cos I’ve had my sacred thread ceremony (for the uninitiated, that’s the Hindu equivalent of baptism for Christians, and well, circumcision for the Muslims), I never feel like one. As coincidence would have it, my mother tongue is Bengali, though I could easily have been French, Japanese or for that matter, Tamilian. Biologically speaking, I’m a male and I’m not open to any debate on that front. I’m not as farsighted as I should be (once again biologically speaking), so my specs act as crutch for me.
Though I’m now old enough to tell a mighty tale out of my sucker of an existence thus far, it was not always so. After all, one doesn’t just end up being twenty two out of nowhere. A time machine might have made matters much simpler. However I’m completely unaware if any mortal has been able to realize the dreams of Messrs. Wells and Einstein. On second thoughts it doesn’t even matter a freaking penny ‘cos I ain’t got enough printed paper to pay for such ostentatiousness. So, understandably, I had to endure (though some may prefer to go for ‘experience’) every moment that went on to be a part of the whole.
However before I manage to arrest anybody’s attention with my life story, though truly speaking it doesn’t have enough crap to really catch anyone by their lapels, let me first give a brief picture of myself to all those unfortunate people who never got to meet me in person. The first thing you’ll notice is that, well, I’m a guy, and I’m sure you won’t need to have x-ray vision of Mr. Clark Kent to realize that. The next thing you might notice is that I wear specs. Though I’m far from being blind as a bat, my normal vision will not earn me any kudos from the house physician. So I’m forced to employ my twin-lens as a two-legged crutch rather than a twin-engine chopper. I happen to be fair – not as in fair and lovely, but as in skin colour. However, let me refrain from going into any detail on that front lest any psychoanalyst misconstrue my statements and call me a racist.
I am moderately tall by Indian standards. I guess that can be extended to few other country standards as well. I am broad by, well, any standards. However, a surrealist would observe that the earth has greater attraction for me than many others ‘cos gravitational force (read – attraction) is explicitly related with weight. I have everything that any normal male belonging to human species would have, both external like fingers (yup, that one too), limbs and torso, and internal – though I wouldn’t be able to confirm that right now but I sure feel that I am not missing out on anything inside my skeleton. And if ever a poll is conducted to rate looks, I would get only as many votes as any Regular Joe would get. Even if that turns out to be a conservative analysis, I assure you I am not being modest. So people look at me only when they need to. After all only a blind or a hopelessly vain person would speak to you staring at the sky.
I’m sure you have understood by now that I ain’t no superhero (read freak) out of Marvel comic strip. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth, ‘cos I am just another guy residing on this planet, or more specifically, in India. So if you had been patiently waiting to know more about some alter ego of mine, I am happy to disappoint you. And neither do you get any cookies if you had realized long back what I explicitly stated above.
Now let me tell you what I have learnt so far. Apart from the fact that India is a country and Pakistan is its neighbour (yeah I know, even at the risk of sounding overtly jingoistic, that was an age-old juxtaposition of good and evil), I have become aware of quite a few other things. In the same way that I didn’t have to consult the geography textbook used during my school days to know about India and Pakistan, I don’t need to read Kama Sutra to know what love, and well, sex means. There are certain things that one doesn’t need to be spoon fed.
Love, as abstract and unfathomable might the word sound, is as close to the proletariat as it is to the poet. Consequently a poet may compose a stirring ode to the bounties ushered by even the faintest brush of love, even someone belonging to the working class can appreciate and even detest the virtues and vagaries of love. I do not belong to either of the two groups ‘cos I lie sandwiched like a sausage somewhere in between. However, like any other fellow member of my species, I too know a thing or two about this famous and at times infamous four letter word.
I have had crushes; but somehow, despite not so valiant efforts by me, I also managed to remain healthy and uncrushed. And then I made the fatal error (figuratively speaking) of falling in love. There comes lot of times when odds are firmly against you and your agent would strongly advise you not to play into it. And you refrain from throwing in your hat ‘cos you know he is right. But then ask any poker player and you’ll know there also comes times, few as they might be, when one plays his card even though he knows that he is playing against the percentages. He does it not because he lost his rationale, but because he can’t help doing it. It’s like reaching a cul-de-sac and yet you aren’t allowed to turn back ‘cos there are bloodhounds waiting at the other end.
So I fell in love, and I fell hard. And know what, it wasn’t my ass that suffered because of that fall. Another place and another time, I might have shown better sense. But then, as I said, it was one of those times. It’s another matter that I still haven’t managed to climb my way up. I am thus like the chicken for slaughter who knows sooner or later its going to be his time. Or perhaps, returning back to the poker analogy, I’m like the player, who even though he has everything to lose, plays his last card and goes for broke; but he realizes a tad too late that his trump card was actually the weakest link in his armour. On second thoughts he could have played safe and escaped unhurt, but then in life, as in most things, second thoughts matter little after you have won it all or lost it all. I too played my card, and then I realized I wasn’t a poker player in the first place. But then, I guess, I’ll survive and hope I still have an ace (or two) up my sleeve.
Talking about love, I’m reminded of lust. Now lust is as interesting as love, though not as abstract. I happen to be a very ‘normal’ male, especially by Indian sensibilities. Consequently, you might find me happy at times, and sad at times; but I solemnly assure you, you’ll never find me ‘gay’. Now, once I start talking about lust, after a while I might start loosing control of my internal censor board and end up violating the Indecency Act of Indian Telecommunications. So I’ll save that part of me for a more appropriate time and place. A typed sheet written in legible English and observable to many is hardly one.
Friendship – that’s the final chapter of the trilogy of human relationships that are not tailor-made in advance, rather develop on the course of one’s journey that is life. We the humans deserted the jungles and started living in societies long back. At least I live in one ‘cos I ain’t no Robinson Crusoe. It’s another matter though that even Crusoe had his Man Friday. Acquaintances, thus, are inevitable; but friendship – not necessarily so. I too have made a large number of acquaintances and a few friends. I am not a very social creature, but I know a friend when I see one.
The most amazing part of this earth-bound bondage is that no two friendships are alike. There’s one person with whom I can share the intricacies of my personal love for female and films like with no other. There’s another person with whom I can speak and talk and chat without a care for time and space. There’s a third person who is such an uncomplicated being that I can inject humour in the simplest of activities and topics. There’s a fourth person who has such profound belief in me that makes me wonder at myself at times. There’s a fifth who is so close to me at times and so distant at others. Twenty years hence I do not know what friendship will mean to me even though I might still know the meaning of friendship (no pun intended). I only hope that at such a time I won’t have to taste bitter water in a smoky joint while admiring the design of the glass container all the time.
Now you might want to know which schools I attended and what all subjects I studied. You might also want to know what I learnt and what I did not. Statistics act as great levelers, but at the end of the day they hardly matter. So I’ll continue to abide by the rule that I formulated for this piece – I shall not bore you with facts even if you want to be. I am not much into rules and regulations, so I have decided to truly surprise myself on this present occasion.
I’ll say you this, I have had two alma maters so far. As a kid I did attend a third institution (that is figuratively speaking ‘cos literally speaking it was the first). But apart from its name and its interior design I don’t have much to remember it with. So I’ll stick to the following two that came chronologically one after the other – school and college. Names hardly matter; so I’ll stick with the general terms without illuminating your holiness with sugar-coated specifics.
I started attending school at a young age; though, as coincidence would have it, so did all my school mates, barring maybe a few exceptions. For a civil engineer our school might represent just another fine piece of construction. The owners of the school might have earned a few bucks (times a large factor), which I presume they still do. But the joys of life almost always lie in the small inconsequential details. Similarly, our school was more than a stone façade for me. Every single component – the class rooms, the blackboards, the playgrounds, the teachers, the students, and even the trigger happy principal – they all played enormous roles.
I was a naïve blue-eyed kiddo when I first stepped into the edifice. When I left through the gate for the final time, I was a matured young man. More than a decade passed in between. That’s hell of a long time. A few years here and there and you’ve got a life sentence in an Indian penitentiary. But the walls, however insurmountable, and the discipline, however unbearable, could never obliterate the simple truth that the school and the various ingredients that it comprised of made a lasting impression on me. These impressions are not visible on a mirror because even the ultimate Saint-Gobain mirror would never succeed in providing a reflection of our soles.
My college is as different from school as cheese is from chalk, though I choose not to opine as to which is what. To start with, more than a thousand kilometers separate the two. While the former took my forefinger and brought me closer to myself, the latter shook me by my sleeves and advised me to take a step or two away at times. And, in contrasting styles, both have captured a huge piece of my heart and a large chunk of my brain.
College life is as great as it differs from school life. The academics exist, so does the attendance. But the similarity ends there. For the first time in my life I was free of petty bondages. Living in hostel isn’t exactly living at home; but then, neither is the reverse true. Each resides at its place. College life didn’t just teach me new means of ‘bunking’ class and having fun (as in having fun, and not as in being on a high), it enabled me to have experiences – ranging from trivial to terrific – which are difficult for me to elaborate and impossible for you to comprehend. Neither one needs to be a religious symbologist nor a conspiracy theorist to know what I mean. The only prerequisite, I feel, is that he must not be an outright stupid. But then, as Forest Gump might have enlightened you, even fools have the ability to feel and treasure stuff. Who knows, I might just be another faceless fool in the teeming crowd or a joker in an amusement park. As Dylan once complained through a song of his, there’s a fool on your left and a joker to your right. You might recognize me if you bothered looking one way or the other.
You know by now, provided you had enough patience and ability to digest bull-shit, where I studied and what acquaintances I have made. So now you know how I got to be what I am. Well, if you indeed have, do send me a note ‘cos I myself haven’t managed to figure it out. However on second thoughts, don’t bother lifting your posterior up from the cushion beneath, as I seem to be better off not knowing stuff that I haven’t already. As some like-minded guy has said, where ignorance is bliss, better remain one.
How can this piece, if ever there was one, be complete without mentioning what I like and what I don’t. However since the latter would easily outweigh the former, I’ll stick to the liking part. But I won’t give myself carte blanche since there might be things which I might not want you to know…hell, which you too wouldn’t want to know. I’ll stick to things which will not titillate the high sense of ethics of the many moral polices (read constables) who reside in a country of exquisite morals and high ethics called India; people who have taken upon themselves the pious honour of undertaking a crusade against scum like me whose brains are far more polluted than the `holy’ water of the Ganges. It’s another matter though that given a gun, I would have blown their heads off without having to answer to my conscience as to the reasons for my committing such un-Indian acts.
Like a normal guy I like listening to music, watching movies and reading novels, though not necessarily in that order. On this present occasion, I have made this assumption that being normal entails that he is not deaf, blind or illiterate. The United Nations might beg to differ on my definition of a normal guy as it might put their noble acts in jeopardy, but right now I’m in no mood to be preached out of my seemingly Rightist stance (though I solemnly assure you I ain’t one) by any tough sun of a gun.
Talking about something as abstract as music is indeed a difficult task. I am no Tansen or Beethoven, so you might feel my words would lack credibility. But then, in all probability, so would yours. So let me not procrastinate and take the audacious plunge. I have ears, so I can hear sound. I also have a developed human brain as I’m led to believe, so I can discern between music and noise. I agree I am no connoisseur of any form of art, leave alone music, so I won’t wear the garb of one. But I’m entitled to my views and my right to opine, which the makers of the Constitution have bestowed on its hundred crore population.
I have far more respect for people who have the ability to put words on a blank sheet and then turn that into a music piece even though they might not be able to sing like a ‘nightingale’ (pun intended). So a songwriter is far more talented than a crooner who simply employs his (or her) vocal cords to make a song audible to everyone in the audience. Consequently, an Anjan Dutt or a Bob Dylan or a Paul Simon or a James Heitfield or the Lennon-McCartney duo, to me, represents music, while the Lata Mangeshkars of this world are no different from a postman, delivering an already composed piece to us. However that doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t listen to a Frank Sinatra or a Manna Dey song being aired on the radio. I sure appreciate a mellifluous voice when I hear one. Anyway, just for the record, I like rock, metal, folk, folk/rock, ballads, country, jazz, soul, blues, acoustics, instrumentals, R&B, and a bit of heavy metal, pop, punk, hip hop, rap, retro, Latin, techno-fusion and western classical. I abhor acid because, like superman, my ears are not attuned shrill noise, and dislike Indian classical, as it has, with all due respect, the uncanny ability to lull me to sleep.
If I say I like cinema that would be an understatement. Apart from chick-flicks and soppy song-and-dance tear-jerkers a la Karan Johar, you give me anything and I’ll gobble it up. Yes, I’d unabashedly call myself a cineaste, even at the risk of being lampooned by the intellectuals, and a cinephile, at the risk of being lambasted by the conservative elders. Consequently Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Casablanca, On the Waterfront, Fight Club, Gold Rush, Aranyer Din Ratri, Nayak, Calcutta ’71, Sholay et al have provided me with joy and wonder in equal proportions, while Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, Veer Zara and the likes make me realize that the good, the bad and the ugly must all be allowed a place in the sun.
Once upon a time I was like the average movie-goer who watches movies to be entertained, for whom watching the movie is as enjoyable as a packet full of popcorns. And then, a single book, and a not too thick one at that, written by one of the great geniuses of this field – Satyajit Ray (who I like to call the single greatest genius of post-independent India), brought about a drastic transformation in my perspectives vis-à-vis the movies, in the process leaving a lasting impression in me. For me, cinema stopped being just a source of entertainment. It suddenly attained the ability to be called one of the two or three greatest forms of art. In fact, no other form of art has experienced such meteoric growth, has touched so many millions, has associated with it such a huge business, has necessitated so much labour and has incorporated so much science and technology as the medium called cinema. From the German Expressionism to the French Nouvelle Vague, from the Italian neo-realism to the American film noir, from the Soviet montage to the Danish Dogme 95, from the Bombay dream factory to the New York underground movement, from the arthouse and avant-garde to the mainstream, from Spielberg to Scorcese to Tarantino, cinema is one hell of an invention. And I, for one, am sure hooked onto it like wanderlust in the journey of a lifetime. Films have captured my heart and liberated my soul.
And, finally books, which completes my trilogy of arts. Incidentally, this happens to be the second, and fortunately final, trilogy of sorts being mentioned in this piece. Now I haven’t read Cervantes or Chaucer or Homer as yet. I’ve just about had glimpse of Shakespeare, Dickens and Tagore. So I’m sure you’ll agree, as I myself would, of the three arts books are the one I’m least qualified to blabber about. But I’ll blabber nonetheless.
I like reading. I have read trash and I have read some real classics, underrated though. In fact, my version of a classic would hardly make the list of “100 Greatest Books Ever Written”. But then I don’t read books that are usually employed to act as designer labels in one’s book-shelves – in the same capacity as the rich people use Armani and Omega to prove to their fellow human beings that they are indeed rich. Rather, I read books that I can personally relate to, books that act as a shadow of my life or that of my many alter-egos. I like books which are intense, I like books which are lyrical; but I don’t like books which try too hard to please me or try to titillate my tear buds. I’m not yet as unscrupulous with books as I’m with films; perhaps because unlike films, which I can watch objectively, more often than not I get subjectively involved while reading books. I’m not saying what I do is right; I’m saying that what I do isn’t wrong either. Maybe things ought to change, maybe they will, maybe they won’t, I am not promising anything – at least not to the bum typing this gibberish in the name of an autobiography. The crux of the matter is I like calling myself a bibliophile, irrespective of whether you qualify me as one.
I have told you more about myself than I ever intended to. In case you feel I haven’t told everything that is there to know or I haven’t been brutally honest, you are absolutely right. After all, where’s the fun in revealing everything? An air of mystery and darkness makes this effort of mine all the more worthwhile. I am all that I have told in the electronic pages above. But then, with all due respect, I’m much more than that – more than you will ever know, and perhaps I will ever tell you. And anyway, in life, as in many other things, the total is often greater than the sum of the parts. Sounds clichéd? The fact is I deliberately used an overtly hackneyed statement ‘cos at times an overused statement as that can be more eloquent than something that might otherwise seem more original.
But life, as they say, will go on – i.e., assuming I don’t get hit by a truck first thing tomorrow morning. I’m an atheist, so I won’t say “god forbid”; but I hope I end up living longer than that. I hope, by the time I start composing an obituary for myself, I succeed in forming views and opinions on more than just a few stray things here and there. It’s another matter that I don’t need to hope anything ‘cos if I live long enough, I’ll surely have formed opinions on various things to say the least. So wish me long life at your own risk. Either way, I’ll say “god bless you”; I was just speaking figuratively ‘cos I’m still an atheist.
Circa 2007. Silence pervades me. Deafening silence, as the famous oxymoron goes. The New Year had promised me lots. But that’s okay, ‘cos that’s one trend I’m completely used to. Simon and Garfunkel have just sung to me the sounds of silence. There’s an eerie tranquility in the air. And suddenly the combined team of Metallica has broken my peace. I have been caught by my collars and made to realize the ever-pervading necessity to turn the page whenever fate stops playing the harp of time, or my fingers rebel at the grand piano that is resting on my lap – the keyboard. So let me stop.
p.s. in case you managed to devour every syllable of this self proclaimed magnum opus of mine, I’m sure you’d have realized by now you’re none the wiser for it. And if you have skipped words and/or sentences while your fingers moved the scroll bar down, I must admit you are one hell of a smart ass. Just remember one thing, it’s either my way or the high way. And do me a favour, save your monologue about my alleged autobiography for some other time, unless of course you think it calls for verbal champagne. So amigos, goodbye, au revoir, adieu, adios, auf wiedersehen, tata, and my favourite of ‘em all, so long sucker. Meet you in hell ‘cos that’s where I’m headed to.
Review Archive
A
- Aakrosh (1980) - Govind Nihalani
- Aamir (2008) - Raj Kumar Gupta
- Aattam / The Play (2023) - Anand Ekarshi
- Abar Byomkesh (2012) - Anjan Dutt
- Abohomaan (2010) - Rituparno Ghosh
- About Dry Grasses (2023) - Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- About Elly (2009) - Asghar Farhadi
- About Endlessness (2019) - Roy Andersson
- About Some Meaningless Events (1974) - Mostafa Derkaoui
- A Brighter Summer Day (1991) - Edward Yang
- A Brighter Tomorrow (2023) - Nanni Moretti
- A Burning Hot Summer (2011) - Philippe Garrel
- Accident (1967) - Joseph Losey
- Ace in the Hole (1951) - Billy Wilder
- A City of Sadness (1989) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- A Colt is My Passport (1967) - Takashi Nomura
- A Comedias de Deus/God's Comedy (1995) - Joao Cesar Monteiro
- The Act of Killing (2012) - Joshua Oppenheimer & Christine Cynn
- Act of Violence (1948) - Fred Zinnemann
- A Day in the Country/Partie de Campagne (1936) - Jean Renoir
- Adoption (1975) - Marta Meszaros
- The Adventures of Tintin (2011) - Steven Spielberg
- A Fantastic Woman (2017) - Sebastian Lelio
- The Affair / Joen (1967) - Yoshishige Yoshida
- Affair in the Snow (1968) - Yoshishige Yoshida
- A Film Like Any Other (1968) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Afire / Roter Himmel (2023) - Christian Petzold
- After Hours (1985) - Martin Scorsese
- Aftersun (2022) - Charlotte Wells
- After the Rehearsal (1984) - Ingmar Bergman
- After the Storm (2016) - Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Against the Tide (2023) - Sarvnik Kaur
- Agantuk/The Stranger (1991) - Satyajit Ray
- A Generation (1955) - Andrzej Wajda
- Agent Vinod (2012) - Sriram Raghavan
- A Grin Without A Cat (1977) - Chris Marker
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) - Werner Herzog
- Ahed's Knee (2021) - Nadav Lapid
- A Hero (2021) - Asghar Farhadi
- A Hijacking (2012) - Tobias Lindholm
- Ajantrik / The Unmechanical (1958) - Ritwik Ghatak
- Akaler Sandhane / In Search of Famine (1980) - Mrinal Sen
- Akash Kusum / Up in the Clouds (1965) - Mrinal Sen
- Alcarras (2022) - Carla Simon
- Alexander the Great (1980) - Theo Angelopoulos
- Alex Wheatle (2020) - Steve McQueen
- Alice in the Cities / Alice in den Stadten (1974) - Wim Wenders
- Alien (1979) - Ridley Scott
- Aliens (1986) - James Cameron
- Alien 3 (1992) - David Fincher
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- All About My Mother (1999) - Pedro Almodovar
- All Is Forgiven / Tout est Pardonne (2007) - Mia Hansen-Love
- All of Strangers (2023) - Andrew Haigh
- All or Nothing (2002) - Mike Leigh
- The All-Round Reduced Personality (Re-dupers) (1978) - Halke Sander
- All That Breathes (2022) - Shaunak Sen
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) - Laura Poitras
- All the President's Men (1976) - Alan J. Pakula
- All We Imagine as Light (2024) - Payal Kapadia
- Alphaville (1965) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Alpine Fire / Hohenfeuer (1985) - Fredi M. Murer
- Altered States (1980) - Ken Russell
- A Man and a Woman (1966) - Claude Lelouch
- A Man Escaped (1956) - Robert Bresson
- A Man Vanishes (1967) - Shohei Imamura
- Amarcord (1973) - Federico Fellini
- A Married Woman / Une Femme Mariee (1964) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Amelie (2001) - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- The American (2010) - Anton Corbijin
- American Fiction (2023) - Cord Jefferson
- The American Friend (1977) - Wim Wenders
- A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) - Woody Allen
- A Moment of Innocence (1996) - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Amores Perros (2000) - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
- A Most Violent Year (2014) - J.C. Chandor
- Amour (2012) - Michael Haneke
- Ana and the Wolves/Ana y los Lobos (1973) - Carlos Saura
- Anatomy of a Fall (2023) - Justine Triet
- Anatomy of Hell (2003) - Catherine Breillat
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Otto Preminger
- Andrei Rublev (1966) - Andrei Tarkovsky
- And Then There Were None (1945) - Rene Claira
- And, Towards Happy Alleys (2023) - Sreemoyee Singh
- Angamaly Diaries (2017) - Lijo Jose Pellissery
- Angel Face (1953) - Otto Preminger
- Angshumaner Chhobi / Angshuman's Film (2009) - Atanu Ghosh
- Anhe Ghore Da Daan / Alms for A Blind Horse (2011) - Gurvinder Singh
- A Night at the Opera (1935) - Sam Wood
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - Wes Craven
- Ankur / The Seedling (1974) - Shyam Benegal
- Annette (2021) - Leos Carax
- Annie Hall (1977) - Woody Allen
- A Nos Amours (1983) - Maurice Pialat
- Another Round (2020) - Thomas Vinterberg
- Another Woman (1988) - Woody Allen
- Another Year (2010) - Mike Leigh
- Antaheen / The Endless Wait (2009) - Aniruddha Roy Choudhury
- Antares (2004) - Gotz Spielmann
- Antichrist (2009) - Lars von Trier
- Antoine et Colette (1962) - Francois Truffaut
- Aparajito / The Unvanquished (1956) - Satyajit Ray
- The Apartment (1960) - Billy Wilder
- A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) - Roy Andersson
- Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Ford Coppola
- Apollo 13 (1995) - Ron Howard
- Aprile / April (1998) - Nanni Moretti
- Apur Panchali (2013) - Kaushik Ganguly
- Apur Sansar/The World of Apu (1959) - Satyajit Ray
- Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali/Song of the Little Road (1955), Aparajito/The Unvanquished (1956), Apur Sansar/The World of Apu (1959) - Satyajit Ray
- Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978) - Saeed Akhtar Mirza
- Aquarius (2016) - Kleber Mendonca Filho
- Arabian Nights (1974) - Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Arabian Nights (2015) - Miguel Gomes
- Aranyer Din Ratri/Days and Nights in the Forest (1969) - Satyajit Ray
- Ardh Satya/Half Truth (1983) - Govind Nihalani
- Arekti Premer Golpo/Just Another Love Story (2010) - Kaushik Ganguly
- L'Argent (1983) - Robert Bresson
- Argentina, 1985 (2022) - Santiago Mitre
- Argo (2012) - Ben Affleck
- Ariel (1988) - Aki Kaurismaki
- Army of Shadows (1969) - Jean-Pierre Melville
- The Arriviste (2012) - Pascal Santschi
- Arth (1982) - Mahesh Bhatt
- Article 15 (2019) - Anubhav Sinha
- The Artist (2011) - Michel Hazanavicius
- As Bodas de Deus / Spousals of God (1999) - Joao Cesar Monteiro
- Ashani Sanket / Distant Thunder (1973) - Satyajit Ray
- Ashchorjyo Prodeep (2013) - Anik Dutta
- Ashes and Diamonds (1958) - Andrzej Wajda
- Ashes of Time Redux (1994, 2008) - Wong Kar-Wai
- Ash is Purest White (2018) - Jia Zhangke
- The Asphalt Jungle (1950) - John Huston
- The Asphalt Jungle (1950) - John Huston [REVISIT]
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) - Andrew Domik
- The Asthenic Syndrome (1989) - Kira Muratova
- Asukh (1999) - Rituparno Ghosh
- Athena (2022) - Romain Gavras
- Atonement (2007) - Joe Wright
- A Touch of Sin (2013) - Jia Zhangke
- Audition (1999) - Takashi Miike
- Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - Robert Bresson
- Au Revoir les Enfants (1987) - Louis Malle
- A Useful Life / La Vida Útil (2010) - Federico Veiroj
- Autumn Sonata (1978) - Ingmar Bergman
- Autumn Tale (1998) - Eric Rohmer
- Autograph (2010) - Srijit Mukherji
- Avatar (2009) - James Cameron
- The Aviator's Wife (1981) - Eric Rohmer
- L'Avventura / The Adventure (1960) - Michelangelo Antonioni
- Awarapan (2007) - Mohit Suri
- Away With Words (1998) - Christopher Doyle
- A Wedding Suit (1976) - Abbas Kiarostami
- A Woman is a Woman / Une Femme est une Femme (1961) - Jean-Luc Godard
- A Woman Under the Influence (1974) - John Cassavetes
- Azor (2021) - Andreas Fontana
B
- Der Baader Meinhof Komplex / The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) - Uli Edel
- Babi Yar. Context (2021) - Sergei Loznitsa
- Back to the Future Trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990) - Robert Zemickis
- Back to the Wall / Le Dos au Mur (1958) - Edouard Molinaro
- Bacurau (2019) - Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles
- Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) - John Sturges
- Bad Education / La Mala Educacion (2004) - Pedro Almodóvar
- Badlands (1973) - Terrence Malick
- Bad Living / Mal Viver (2023) - Joao Canijo
- Bad Luck (1960) - Andrzej Munk
- Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) - Radu Jude
- Badmaash Company (2010) - Parmeet Sethi
- Bad Timing (1980) - Nicholas Roeg
- Baishe Srabon (2011) - Srijit Mukherji
- Baishey Shravana (1960) - Mrinal Sen
- Ballad of a Soldier (1959) - Grigori Chukhrai
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) - Ethan & Joel Coen
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) - Sam Peckinpah
- The Ballad of Narayama (1983) - Shohei Imamura
- Bande a Part / Band of Outsiders (1964) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Bande a Part / Band of Outsiders (1964) - Jean-Luc Godard [REVISIT]
- The Banishment (2007) - Andrey Zvyagintsev
- The Bank Job (2008) - Roger Donaldson
- The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) - Martin McDonagh
- Barbara (2012) - Christian Petzold
- Barbie (2023) - Greta Gerwig
- Barfi (2012) - Anurag Basu
- Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) - Bong Joon-ho
- Barry Lyndon (1975) - Stanley Kubrick
- The Basilisks (1963) - Lina Wertmuller
- Bastards (2013) - Claire Denis
- Batman (1989) - Tim Burton
- Batman Returns (1992) - Tim Burton
- The Battle (2023) - Vera Egito
- The Battle of Algiers (1966) - Gillo Pontecorvo
- The Battle of Chile: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (1975), Coup D'etat (1976), The Power of the People (1979)
- Battleship Potemkin (1925) - Sergei Eisenstein
- Bay of Angels (1963) - Jacques Demy
- The Beaches of Agnes (2008) - Agnes Varda
- Le Beau Serge (1958) - Claude Chabrol
- Beau Travail (1999) - Claire Denis
- Bed and Board (1970) - Francois Truffaut
- The Beekeeper (1986) - Theo Angelopoulos
- Before Midnight (2013) - Richard Linklater
- Before the Devil Knows I'm Dead (2007) - Sidney Lumet
- Before Sunset (2004) - Richard Linklater
- Beginning (2020) - Dea Kulumbegashvili
- Being John Malkovich (1999) - Spike Jonze
- Belle de Jour (1967) - Luis Bunuel
- La Belle Noiseuse (1991) - Jacques Rivette
- Benedetta (2021) - Paul Verhoeven
- Benny's Video (1992) - Michael Haneke
- Berberian Sound Studio (2012) - Peter Strickland
- Bergman Island (2021) - Mia Hansen-Love
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Better Cal Saul (2015-2022) - Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould
- Beyond the Hills (2012) - Cristian Mungiu
- Bhalo Theko/Take Care (2003) - Goutam Halder
- Bheja Fry (2007) - Sagar Ballary
- Bhuter Bhabishyat/Future of the Past (2012) - Anik Dutta
- The Bicycle Thief / Ladri Di Biciclette (1948) - Vittorio De Sica
- Il Bidone / The Swindle (1955) - Federico Fellini
- The Big Clock (1948) - John Farrow
- The Big Combo (1955) - Joseph H. Lewis
- The Big Heat (1953) - Fritz Lang
- The Big Lebowski (1998) - Ethan & Joel Coen
- The Big Risk / Classe Tous Risques (1960) - Claude Sautet
- The Big Sleep (1946) - Howard Hawks
- Bill Douglas Trilogy: My Childhood (1972), My Ain Folk (1973), My Way Home (1978) - Bill Douglas
- Binding Sentiments (1969) - Marta Meszaros
- Birdman (2014) - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
- The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966) - Pietro Germi
- Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969) - Juraj Jakubisko
- Bishh/Poison (2009) - Kaushik Mukherjee
- A Bittersweet Life (2005) - Kim Jee-Woon
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Black Book (2006) - Paul Verhoeven
- Black Cat, White Cat (1998) - Emir Kusturica
- Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014) - Diao Yinan
- Black Girl (1966) - Ousmane Sembene
- BlacKkKlansman (2018) - Spike Lee
- Black Panthers (1968) - Agnes Varda
- Black Peter / Carny Petr (1964) - Milos Forman
- Black Rain (1989) - Shohei Imamura
- Black Sun (1964) - Koreyoshi Kurahara
- Black Tide / Fleuve Noir (2018) - Erick Zonca
- Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott
- Blastof Silence (1961) - Allen Baron
- Blind Chance (1981/1987) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Blind Chance (1987) - Krzysztof Kieslowski [REVISIT]
- Blood and Wine (1996) - Bob Rafelson
- Blood Simple (1984) - Ethan & Joel Coen
- Blood Wedding (1981) - Carlos Saura
- Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020) - Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross
- Bloody Sunday (2002) - Paul Greengrass
- Blow Out (1981) - Brian De Palma
- Blow-Up(1966) - Michelangelo Antonioni
- The Blue Dahlia (1946) - George Marshall
- Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013) - Abdellatif Kechiche
- Blue Jasmine (2013) - Woody Allen
- Blue Velvet (1986) - David Lynch
- Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011) - Liz Garbus
- Bob le Flambeur (1956) - Jean-Pierre Melville
- Body Double (1984) - Brian De Palma
- Body of Lies (2008) - Ridley Scott
- Bombay Talkies (2013) - Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap
- Bombshell (2019) - Jay Roach
- Le Bonheur (1965) - Agnes Varda
- Les Bonnes Femmes (1960) - Claude Chabrol
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Arthur Penn
- Boogie Nights (1997) - Paul Thomas Anderson
- Born to Kill (1947) - Robert Wise
- Boston Legal (2004-2009) - David E. Kelly
- Both Sides of the Blade (2022) - Claire Denis
- Le Boucher / The Butcher (1970) - Claude Chabrol
- Bound (1996) - Andy & Larry Wachowski
- The Bow / Hwal (2005) - Kim Ki-Duk
- The Boy and the Heron (2023) - Hayao Miyazaki
- Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987) - Eric Rohmer
- Boyhood (2014) - Richard Linklater
- Brazil (1985) - Terry Gilliam
- Breach (2007) - Billy Ray
- Breaking Bad (2008-2013) - Vince Gilligan et al
- Breaking the Waves (1996) - Lars von Trier
- Breathless / A Bout de Souffle (1960) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Breathless / A Bout de Souffle (1960) - Jean-Luc Godard [REVISIT]
- Brick (2005) - Rian Johnson
- The Bride Who Wore Black (1968) - Francois Truffaut
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - David Lean
- Brief Encounter (1945) - David Lean
- Brigitte and Brigitte (1966) - Luc Moullet
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) - Sam Peckinpah
- British Sounds / See You At Mao (1969) - Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Henri Roger
- Broadway Danny Rose (1984) - Woody Allen
- Broken Embraces (2009) - Pedro Almodovar
- Broken Flowers (2005) - Jim Jarmusch
- Broker (2022) - Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Brute Force (1947) - Jules Dassin
- A Bucket of Blood (1959) - Roger Corman
- Budapest Tales (1976) - Istvan Szabo
- Buena Vista Social Club (1999) - Wim Wenders
- Bullitt (1968) - Peter Yates
- The Burmese Harp (1956) - Kon Ichikawa
- Burn After Reading (2008) - Ethan & Joel Coen
- Burning (2018) - Lee Chang-dong
- Bye Bye Tiberias (2023) - Lina Soualem
- Byomkesh Bakshi (2010) - Anjan Dutt
- By the Grace of God (2019) - Francois Ozon
C
- Cache/Hidden (2005) - Michael Haneke
- Caesar Must Die (2012) - Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
- Calamari Union (1985) - Aki Kaurismaki
- California Dreamin' (Endless) (2007) - Cristian Nemescu
- Call Me by Your Name (2017) - Luca Guadagnino
- Camera Buff (1979) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Cameraperson (2016) - Kirsten Johnson
- Camouflage (2022) - Jonathan Perel
- The Canterbury Tales (1972) - Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Capote (2005) - Bennett Miller
- Capricious Summer (1968) - Jiri Menzel
- Captain Phillips (2013) - Paul Greengrass
- Les Carabiniers (1963) - Jean-Luc Godard
- The Card Counter (2021) - Paul Schrader
- Career Girls (1997) - Mike Leigh
- Carlos (2009) - Olivier Assayas
- Carnal Knowledge (1971) - Mike Nichols
- Carol (2015) - Todd Haynes
- The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004) - Chris Marker
- Casino (1995) - Martin Scorsese
- Cassandra's Dream (2007) - Woody Allen
- Cathy Come Home (1966) - Ken Loach
- Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) - Jacques Rivette
- Le Cercle Rouge / The Red Circle (1970) - Jean-Pierre Melville
- La Ceremonie (1995) - Claude Chabrol
- Certain Women (2016) - Kelly Reichardt
- Certified Copy/Copie Conforme (2010) - Abbas Kiarostami
- Cesar and Rosalie (1972) - Claude Sautet
- Chalchitro / The Kaleidoscope (1981) - Mrinal Sen
- Chalo, Lets Go (2008) - Anjan Dutt
- Charachar / Shelter of the Wings (1993) - Buddhadeb Dasgupta
- Charade (1963) - Stanley Donen
- Charlie Chan Collection: Dark Alibi (1946) - Phil Karlson, Dangerous Money (1946) - Terry O. Morse, The Trap (1946) - Howard Bretherton, The Chinese Ring (1947) - William Beaudine
- Charlie Wilson's War (2007) - Mike Nichols
- Charulata / The Lonely Wife (1964) - Satyajit Ray
- Charulata 2011 (2012) - Agnidev Chatterjee
- The Chaser (2008) - Na Hong-Jin
- Chaturanga/Four Chapters (2008) - Suman Mukhopadhyay
- Chernobyl (2019) - Johan Renck
- Un Chien Andalou (1929) - Luis Bunuel
- Children of Heaven (1997) - Majid Majidi
- Chile, Obstinate Memory (1997) - Patricio Guzman
- La Chimera (2023) - Alice Rohrwacher
- Chinatown (1974) - Roman Polanski
- La Chinoise (1967) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish (2012) - Rituparno Ghosh
- Chloe (2009) - Atom Egoyan
- Chloe in the Afternoon (1972) - Eric Rohmer
- Chorus (1974) - Mrinal Sen
- Les Choses de la Vie/The Things of Life (1970) - Claude Sautet
- Chowrasta / Crossroads of Love (2009) - Anjan Dutt
- Chowringhee (1968) - Uttam Kumar
- A Christmas Tale (2008) - Arnaud Desplechin
- Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) - Francesco Rosi
- Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) - Elia Suleiman
- Chronicle of a Summer (1961) - Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin
- Chungking Express (1994) - Wong Kar-Wai
- Chupke Chupke (1975) - Hrishikesh Mukherjee
- La Cienaga (2001) - Lucrecia Martel
- Cinema Paradiso/Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988) - Giuseppe Tornatore
- Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles
- City Hall (2020) - Frederick Wiseman
- City of God (2002) - Fernando Meirelles
- Claire's Camera (2017) - Hong Sang-soo
- Claire's Knee (1970) - Eric Rohmer
- Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) - Agnes Varda
- Clerk (2010) - Subhadro Choudhury
- Climates / Iklimler (2006) - Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Closed Curtain (2013) - Jafar Panahi & Kambuzia Partovi
- Closely Watched Trains (1966) - Jiri Menzel
- Close-Up (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami
- Close Your Eyes (2023) - Victor Erice
- Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) - Olivier Assayas
- The Club (2015) - Pablo Larrain
- Code 46 (2004) - Michael Winterbottom
- Le Coeur Fantome / The Phantom Heart (1996) - Philippe Garrel
- Cold War (2018) - Pawel Pawlikowski
- Collateral (2004) - Michael Mann
- The Collector / La Collectionneuse (1967) - Eric Rohmer
- The Color of Money (1986) - Martin Scorsese
- The Color of Pomegranates (1968) - Sergei Parajanov
- Comedy of Power (2006) - Claude Chabrol
- Compartment No. 6 (2021) - Juho Kuosmanen
- El Conde (2023) - Pablo Larrain
- The Confession (1970) - Costa-Gavras
- Confessions (2010) - Tetsuya Nakashima
- Confidence / Bizalom (1979) - Istvan Szabo
- The Conformist / Il Conformista (1970) - Bernardo Bertolucci
- The Conversation (1974) - Francis Ford Coppola
- The Cooler (2003) - Wayne Kramer
- Cool Hand Luke (1967) - Stuart Rosenberg
- The Cordillera of Dreams (2019) - Patricio Guzman
- Corporate Accountability (2020) - Jonathan Perel
- Coup de Chance (2023) - Woody Allen
- Coup de Torchon / Clean Slate (1981) - Bertrand Tavernier
- Cousin Angelica/La Prima Angelica (1974) - Carlos Saura
- Les Cousins (1959) - Claude Chabrol
- The Cranes Are Flying (1957) - Mikhail Kalatozov
- Crash (1996) - David Cronenberg
- Crazed Fruit (1956) - Ko Nakahira
- The Cremator (1968) - Juraj Herz
- Cria Cuervos (1976) - Carlos Saura
- Cries and Whispers (1972) - Ingmar Bergman
- El Crimen del Padre Amaro/The Crime of Father Amaro (2002) - Carlos Carrera
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) - Woody Allen
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) - Woody Allen [REVISIT]
- Crimes of the Future (2022) - David Cronenberg
- Crime Wave (1954) - Andre De Toth
- Criss Cross (1949) - Robert Siodmak
- Cronos (1993) - Guillermo Del Toro
- Cross Connection (2009) - Abhijit Guha & Sudeshna Roy
- Crossed Tracks/Roman De Gare (2007) - Claude Lelouch
- The Crown (2016-2023] - Peter Morgan et al
- Cruel Gun Story (1964) - Takumi Furukawa
- Cruel Story of Youth/Naked Youth (1960) - Nagisa Oshima
- Cry Danger (1951) - Robert Parrish
- Cry of the City (1948) - Robert Siodmak
- Crystal Swan (2018) - Darya Zhuk
- Cuba Si! (1961) - Chris Marker
- Cul-de-Sac (1966) - Roman Polanski
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) - David Fincher
- Cutting It Short / Postriziny (1980) - Jiri Menzel
- Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw (2004) - Koji Wakamatsu
D
- Daaaaaali! (2023) - Quentin Dupieux
- Dabangg (2010) - Abhinav Kashyap
- Da 5 Bloods (2020) - Spike Lee
- Daguerrotypes (1975) - Agnes Varda
- Dahan / Crossfire (1997) - Rituparno Ghosh
- Daisies (1966) - Vera Chytilova
- Damnation / Karhozat (1988) - Bela Tarr
- Dancer in the Dark (2000) - Lars von Trier
- A Dangerous Method (2011) - David Cronenberg
- The Darjeeling Limited (2007) - Wes Anderson
- Dark Passage (1947) - Delmer Daves
- Dark Waters (2019) - Todd Haynes
- Darling (1965) - John Schlesinger
- DAU. Natasha (2020) - Ilya Khrzhanovsky & Jekaterina Oertel
- The Day He Arrives (2011) - Hong Sang-soo
- The Day of the Jackal (1973) - Fred Zinnemann
- Day of the Outlaw (1959) - Andre De Toth
- Days (2020) - Tsai Ming-liang
- Days of Being Wild (1990) - Wong Kar-Wai
- Days of '36 (1972) - Theo Angelopoulos
- The Deadly Affair (1966) - Sidney Lumet
- Dead Man (1995) - Jim Jarmusch
- Dead Reckoning (1947) - John Cromwell
- Dead Ringers (1988) - David Cronenberg
- Dear Diary / Caro Diario (1993) - Nanni Moretti
- Death by Hanging (1968) - Nagisa Oshima
- Death of a Bureaucrat (1966) - Tomas Guitierrez Alea
- Death of a Cyclist (1955) - Juan Antonio Bardem
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) - Cristi Puiu
- The Death of Stalin (2017) - Armando Iannucci
- A Decade under the Influence (2003) - Ted Demme & Richard LaGravenese
- The Decameron (1971) - Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Decision at Sundown (1957) - Budd Boetticher
- Decision to Leave (2022) - Park Chan-wook
- Deconstructing Harry (1997) - Woody Allen
- Dedh Ishqiya (2014) - Abhishek Chaubey
- The Deep (2012) - Baltasar Kormakur
- Dekalog / The Decalogue (1989) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Dekha (2001) - Goutam Ghose
- Delhi 6 (2009) - Rakesh Omprakash Mehra
- Delicatessen (1991) - Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro
- The Delinquents (2023) - Rodrigo Moreno
- The Departed (2006) - Martin Scorsese
- Deprisa, Deprisa (1981) - Carlos Saura
- Dersu Uzala (1975) - Akira Kurosawa
- The Descendants (2011) - Alexander Payne
- D'Est / From the East (1993) - Chantal Akerman
- Detective (1985) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015) - Dibakar Banerjee
- Detour (1946) - Edgar G. Ulmer
- Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966) - Jean-Pierre Melville
- Dev D (2009) - Anurag Kashyap
- Devi / The Goddess (1960) - Satyajit Ray
- The Devil's Backbone/El Espinazo Del Diablo (2001) - Guillermo Del Toro
- Dharavi (1992) - Sudhir Mishra
- Dhobi Ghat/Mumbai Diaries (2011) - Kiran Rao
- Diamonds of the Night (1964) - Jan Nemec
- Diary for My Children (1984) - Marta Meszaros
- Diary for My Father and Mother (1990) - Marta Meszaros
- Diary for My Lovers (1987) - Marta Meszaros
- Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) - Luis Bunuel
- Dirty Harry (1971) - Don Siegel
- The Dirty Picture (2011) - Milan Luthria
- The Disciple (2020) - Chaitanya Tamhane
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) - Luis Bunuel
- Dis-Moi (1980) - Chantal Akerman
- Divine Intervention (2002) - Elia Suleiman
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) - Julian Schnabel
- Divorce Italian Style (1961) - Pietro Germi
- Django (1966) - Sergio Corbucci
- Django Unchained (2012) - Quentin Tarantino
- D.O.A. (1950) - Rudolph Mate
- Documenteur (1981) - Agnes Varda
- Dogtooth / Kynodontas (2009) - Yorgos Lanthimos
- Dogville (2003) - Lars von Trier
- La Dolce Vita/The Sweet Life (1960) - Federico Fellini
- Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023) - Radu Jude
- Don't Cry, Pretty Girls! (1970) - Marta Meszaros
- Don't Look Now (1973) - Nicolas Roeg
- Don 2 (2011) - Farhan Akhtar
- Door Gagan Ki Chhaon Mein (1964) - Kishore Kumar
- Le Dossier 51 (1978) - Michel Deville
- Double Indemnity (1944) - Billy Wilder
- The Double Life of Veronique (1991) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Double Suicide (1969) - Masahiro Shinoda
- Doubt (2008) - John Patrick Shanley
- Le Doulos / The Finger Man (1962) - Jean-Pierre Melville
- Le Doulos (1962) - Jean-Pierre Melville [REVISIT]
- Down by Law (1986) - Jim Jarmusch
- Downfall / Der Untergang (2004) - Oliver Herschbiegel
- Down There / La-bas (2006) Chantal Akerman
- Dreams / Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990) - Akira Kurosawa
- Dressed to Kill (1980) - Brian De Palma
- Drifting Clouds (1996) - Aki Kaurismaki
- Drive (2011) - Nicholas Winding Refn
- Drive My Car (2021) - Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- The Driver (1978) - Walter Hill
- Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) - Stanley Kubrick
- Drug War (2012) - Johnnie To
- Dry Ground Burning (2022) - Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queiros
- Duck Soup (1933) - Leo McCarey
- Duck, You Sucker! /A Fistful of Dynamites (1971) - Sergio Leone
- Duel (1971) - Steven Spielberg
- Dum Maro Dum (2011) - Rohan Sippy
- The Dust of Time (2008) - Theo Angelopoulos
- Duvidha (1973) - Mani Kaul
E
- Eastern Promises (2007) - David Cronenberg
- East of Eden (1955) - Elia Kazan
- Easy Rider (1969) - Dennis Hopper
- Eaux Profondes / Deep Water (1981) - Michel Deville
- L'Eclisse (1962) - Michelangelo Antonioni
- The Edge of Heaven (2007) - Fatih Akin
- Education (2020) - Steve McQueen
- Ed Wood (1994) - Tim Burton
- The Eel/Unagi (1997) - Shohei Imamura
- Eden (2014) - Mia Hansen-Love
- 8 1/2 / Otto e Mezzo (1963) - Federico Fellini
- 8 1/2 / Otto e Mezzo (1963) - Federico Fellini [REVISIT]
- Ek Din Pratidin/And Quiet Rolls the Dawn (1979) - Mrinal Sen
- Ek Doctor Ki Maut (1990) - Tapan Sinha
- Ekti Tarar Khonje/Beyond the Stars (2010) - Avik Mukherjee
- El/This Strange Passion (1953) - Luis Bunuel
- Elena (2011) - Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Elephant (2003) - Gus Van Sant
- An Elephant Sitting Still (2018) - Hu Bo
- Elevator to the Gallows (1958) - Louis Mallet
- Elisa, Vida Mia/Elisa, My Love (1977) - Carlos Saura
- Elle (2016) - Paul Verhoeven
- Ema (2019) - Pablo Larrain
- Emergency Kisses / Les Baisers de Secours (1989) - Philippe Garrel
- Emily the Criminal (2022) - John Patton Ford
- Endless Desire (1958) - Shohei Imamura
- L'Enfant / The Child (2005) - Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- L'Enfant Secret / The Secret Child (1979) - Philippe Garrel
- L'Enfer / Hell (1994) - Claude Chabrol
- The Enigma of Kasper Hauser (1974) - Werner Herzog
- EO (2022) - Jerzy Skolimowski
- Eraserhead (1977) - David Lynch
- Eroica / Heroic Symphony (1958) - Andrzej Munk
- Eros + Massacre (1969) - Yoshishige Yoshida
- Estate Violenta / Violent Summer (1959) - Valerio Zurlini
- Esterno Notte (2022) - Mario Bellocchio
- The Eternal Daughter (2022) - Joanna Hogg
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Michel Gondry
- Eternity and a Day (1998) - Theo Angelopoulos
- Europa Europa (1990) - Agnieszka Holland
- Eva (1962) - Joseph Losey
- Every Man for Himself (1980) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) - Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
- Everything Went Fine (2021) - Francois Ozon
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) - Woody Allen
- The Evil Dead (1983) - Sam Raimi
- Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987) - Sam Raimi
- Evil Does Not Exist (2023) - Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- Executive Action (1973) - David Miller
- Exiled (2006) - Johnnie To
- The Expendables (2010) - Sylvester Stallone
- The Expendables 2 (2012) - Simon West
- The Expendables 3 (2014) - Patrick Hughes
- Das Experiment / The Exxperiment (2001) - Oliver Hirschbiegel
- The Exterminating Angel (1962) - Luis Bunuel
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - Stanley Kubrick
- Eyes without a Face (1960) - Georges Franju
F
- The Fabelmans (2022) - Steven Spielberg
- The Face of Another (1966) - Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Faces (1968) - John Cassavetes
- Faces Places / Visages Villages (2017) - Agnes Varda
- Fading Gigolo (2013) - John Turturro
- Fallen Angels (1995) - Wong Kar-Wai
- Fallen Leaves (2023) - Aki Kaurismaki
- Falling Down (1993) - Joel Schumacher
- Family Romance, LLC (2019) - Werner Herzog
- Fanny and Alexander (1982) - Ingmar Bergman
- The Far Country (1954) - Anthony Mann
- The Farewell (2019) - Lulu Wang
- Farewell to the Summer Light (1968) - Yoshishige Yoshida
- Far from Vietnam (1967) - Chris Marker, Agnes Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Claude Lelouch, William Klein, Joris Ivens
- Fargo (1996) - Ethan & Joel Coen
- Fashion (2008) - Madhur Bhandarkar
- Fat City (1972) - John Huston
- Fat Girl/A Ma Soeur (2001) - Catherine Breillat
- Father / Apa (1966) - Istvan Szabo
- Father of My Children (2009) - Mia Hansen-Love
- The Favourite (2018) - Yorgos Lanthimos
- Femme Fatale (2002) - Brian De Palma
- La Femme Nikita/Nikita (1990) - Luc Besson
- Fertile Memory (1980) - Michel Khleifi
- Festen / The Celebration (1998) - Thomas Vinterberg
- Le Feu Follet / The Fire Within (1963) - Louis Malle
- The Fifth Seal (1976) - Zoltan Fabri
- Fight Club (1999) - David Fincher
- The Fighter (2010) - David O. Russell
- Fire in Babylon (2010) - Stevan Riley
- The Firemen's Ball (1967) - Milos Forman
- Fire of Love (2022) - Sara Dosa
- The Fire Within: A Requiem to Katia and Maurice Kraft (2022) - Werner Herzog
- Fireworks / Hana-bi (1997) - Takeshi Kitano
- Fireworks Wednesday (2006) - Asghar Farhadi
- First Case, Second Case (1979) - Abbas Kiarostami
- First Cow (2019) - Kelly Reichardt
- First Graders (1984) - Abbas Kiarostami
- First Reformed (2017) - Paul Schrader
- Fitzcarraldo (1982) - Werner Herzog
- 5 Broken Cameras (2011) - Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi
- Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Bob Rafelson
- 5x2 / Sinq Fois Deux (2004) - Francois Ozon
- Flame and Woman (1967) - Yoshishige Yoshida
- Un Flic / Dirty Money (1972) - Jean-Pierre Melville
- Flight of the Red Balloon (2007) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- La Flor (2018) - Mariano Llinas
- The Flower of My Secret (1995) - Pedro Almodovar
- The Fly (1986) - David Cronenberg
- Following (1998) - Christopher Nolan
- Force Majeure / Turist (2014) - Ruben Ostlund
- Force of Evil (1948) - Abraham Polonsky
- Fort Apache (1948) - John Ford
- 45 Years (2015) - Andrew Haigh
- Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987) - Eric Rohmer
- Four Daughters (2023) - Kaouther Ben Hania
- Four Days in July (1984) - Mile Leigh
- The 400 Blows / Les 400 Coups (1959) - Francois Truffaut
- The 400 Blows / Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959) - Francois Truffaut [REVISIT]
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) - Cristian Mungiu
- France (2021) - Bruno Dumont
- Frances Ha (2012) - Noah Baumbach
- Francofonia (2015) - Alexander Sokurov
- Frantz (2016) - Francois Ozon
- The French Connection (1971) - William Friedkin
- The French Connection (1971) - William Friedkin [REVISIT]
- The French Dispatch (2021) - Wes Anderson
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) - Peter Yates
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) - Peter Yates [REVISIT]
- From Here to There (2011) - Agnes Varda
- From What Is Before (2014) - Lav Diaz
- Frost/Nixon (2008) - Ron Howard
- Full Moon in Paris (1984) - Eric Rohmer
- Fulltime Killer (2001) - Johny To & Wai Ka-Fai
- Funny Games (1997) - Michael Haneke
- The Future / Il Futuro (2013) - Alicia Scherson
G
- Le Gai Savoir / Joy of Learning (1969) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Galpa Holeo Satyi / Stranger than Fiction (1966) - Tapan Sinha
- Ganashatru / An Enemy of the People (1989) - Satyajit Ray
- Gandu / The Loser (2010) - Kaushik Mukherjee aka Q
- Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) - Anurag Kashyap
- Gangs of Wasseypur 2 (2012) - Anurag Kashyap
- Garde a Vue / The Grilling (1981) - Claude Miller
- The Garden of Delights (1970) - Carlos Saura
- The General (1927) - Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
- Germany, Year Zero (1948) - Roberto Rossellini
- Gertrud (1964) - Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Get Carter (1971) - Mike Hodges
- Getting Away with Murder(s) - David Wilkinson
- Ghajini (2008) - A. R. Murugadoss
- Ghare Baire / Home and the World (1984) - Satyajit Ray
- Girlhood (dir. Celine Sciamma)
- The Ghost Writer (2010) - Roman Polanski
- Ghulam (1998) - Vikram Bhatt
- Gilda (1946) - Charles Vidor
- Giraffe (2019) - Anna Sofie Hartmann
- The Girl (1968) - Marta Meszaros
- The Girl and the Spider (2021) - Silver and Ramon Zucher
- The Girl in the Cafe (2005) - David Yates
- The Girl Who Played With Fire (2009) - Daniel Alfredson
- Girl with a Suitcase (1961) - Valerio Zurlini
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) - Niels Arden Oplev
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) - David Fincher
- The Gleaners and I (2000) - Agnes Varda
- The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (2002) - Agnes Varda
- Gloria (2013) - Sebastian Lelio
- The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (1972) - Wim Wenders
- The Go-Between (1971) - Joseph Losey
- Gone Baby Gone (2007) - Ben Affleck
- Godfather (1972) - Francis Ford Coppola
- The Godfather Part II (1974) - Francis Ford Coppola
- The Godfather Part III (1990) - Francis Ford Coppola
- Godzilla Minus One (2023) - Takashi Yamazaki
- Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969) - Koji Wakamatsu
- Gold Rush (1925) - Charlie Chaplin
- Gomorrah (2008) - Matteo Garrone
- Gone Girl (2014) - David Fincher
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) - Sergio Leone
- Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003) - Tsai Ming-liang
- Goodbye First Love (2011) - Mia Hansen-Love
- Goodbye, Lenin! (2003) - Wolfgang Becker
- The Good Girls (2018) - Alejandra Marquez Abella
- A Good Marriage (1982) - Eric Rohmer
- Good Men, Good Women (1995) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- The Good Shepherd (2006) - Robert De Niro
- Good Time (2017) - Josh & Benny Safdie
- Good Will Hunting (1997) - Gus Van Sant
- Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne / The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (1968) - Satyajit Ray
- Gorosthane Sabdhan (2010) - Sandip Ray
- Gosford Park (2002) - Robert Altman
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) - Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Goynar Baksho / The Jewellery Box (2013) - Aparna Sen
- The Graduate (1967) - Mike Nichols
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) - Wes Anderson
- La Grande Illusion / Grand Illusion (1937) - Jean Renoir
- The Grandmaster (2013) - Wong Kar-Wai
- Grass (2018) - Hong Sang-soo
- Gravity (2013) - Alfonso Cuaron
- The Great Beauty (2013) - Paolo Sorrentino
- The Great Debaters (2007) - Denzel Washington
- The Great Escape (1963) - John Sturges
- The Great Indian Kitchen (2021) - Jeo Baby
- The Great Silence (1968) - Sergio Corbucci
- Green Border (2023) - Agnieszka Holland
- Grihajuddha / Crossroads (1982) - Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1982)
- Grihajuddha / Crossroads (1982) - Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1982) [REVISIT]
- Grindhouse - Planet Terror & Death Proof (2007) - Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino
- Grosse Point Blank (1997) - George Armitage
- Groundhog Day (1993) - Harold Ramis
- Gulaal / Vermilion (2009) - Anurag Kashyap
- Gully Boy (2019) - Zoya Akhtar
- Gun Crazy (1950) - Joseph H. Lewis
H
- Haider (2014) - Vishal Bharadwaj
- La Haine (1995) - Mathieu Kassovitz
- The Handmaiden (2016) - Park Chan-wook
- The Hand of God (2021) - Paolo Sorrentino
- Hands over the City (1963) - Francesco Rosi
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) - Woody Allen
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) - Woody Allen [REVISIT]
- Happening / L'Evenement (2021) - Audrey Diwan
- Happy Together (1997) - Wong Kar-Wai
- Hard Boiled (1992) - John Woo
- A Hard Day's Night (1964) - Richard Lester
- Hard to be a God (2013) - Aleksei German
- Harmonium (2016) - Koji Fukada
- Harold and Maude (1971) - Hal Ashby
- Le Havre (2011) - Aki Kaurismaki
- The Headless Woman (2008) - Lucrecia Martel
- The Headless Woman (2008) - Lucrecia Martel [REVISIT]
- Head-On / Gegen die Wand (2004) - Fatih Akin
- Headshot (2011) - Pan-Ek Ratanaruang
- A Heart in Winter / Un Coeur en Hiver (1992) - Claude Sautet
- Heist (2001) - David Mamet
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) - Guillermo Del Toro
- Her (2013) - Spike Jonze
- Herbert (2006) - Suman Mukhopadhyay
- Here and Elsewhere / Ici et Ailleurs (1976) - Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Mieville
- Hero / Ying Xiong (2002) - Zhang Yimou
- Hidden Agenda (1990) - Ken Loach
- High and Low (1963) - Akira Kurosawa
- High Hopes (1988) - Mike Leigh
- High Noon (1952) - Fred Zinnemann
- High Plains Drifter (1973) - Clint Eastwood
- High Sierra (1941) - Raoul Walsh
- Hirer Angti / The Diamond Ring (1992) - Rituparno Ghosh
- Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) - Alain Resnais
- Histoire(s) du Cinema (1988-1998) - Jean-Luc Godard
- History of Ha (2021) - Lav Diaz
- A History of Violence (2005) - David Cronenberg
- Hit List (2009) - Sandip Ray
- Hit the Road (2021) - Panah Panahi
- The Holdovers (2023) - Alexander Payne
- The Holy Girl / La Nina Santa (2004) - Lucrecia Martel
- Holy Motors (2012) - Leos Carax
- Homework (1989) - Abbas Kiarostami
- Hondo (1953) - John Farrow
- Honeycomb (1969) - Carlos Saura
- Hopper/Welles (2020) - Orson Welles
- Hospitalite (2010) - Koji Fukada
- The Host (2006) - Bong Joon-ho
- Hotel by the River (2018) - Hong Sang-soo
- Hotel Monterey (1972) - Chantal Akerman
- Hour of the Wolf (1968) - Ingmar Bergman
- Houseful (2009) - Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
- The House That Jack Built (2018) - Lars von Trier
- Hud (1963) - Martin Ritt
- Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) - Masaki Kobayashi
- Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity (1959) - Masaki Kobayashi
- Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961) - Masaki Kobayashi
- The Human Voice (2020) - Pedro Almodovar
- Hunger (2008) - Steve McQueen
- The Hunt / La Caza (1966) - Carlos Saura
- The Hunt (2012) - Thomas Vinterberg
- The Hunters (1977) - Theo Angelopoulos
- The Hurt Locker (2009) - Kathryn Bigelow
- Husbands (1970) - John Cassavetes
- Husbands and Wives (1992) - Woody Allen
- Husbands and Wives (1992) - Woody Allen [REVISIT]
- The Hustler (1961) - Robert Rossen
I
- I Am Cuba / Soy Cuba (1964) - Mikhail Kalatozov
- I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) - Vilgot Sjoman
- I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) - Vilgot Sjoman
- I Am Not Your Negro (2016) - Raoul Peck
- The Ice Storm (1997) - Ang Lee
- Ida (2013) - Pawel Pawlikowski
- I, Daniel Blake (2016) - Ken Loach
- The Ides of March (2011) - George Clooney
- I Don't Hear the Guitar Anymore (1991) - Philippe Garrel
- If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) - Barry Jenkins
- If I Had Four Dromedaries (1966) - Chris Marker
- If Only / Magari (2019) - Ginerva Elkann
- Igy Jottem (1965) - Miklos Jancso
- I Hired A Contract Killer (1990) - Aki Kaurismaki
- Ikiru (1952) - Akira Kurosawa
- Illustrious Corpses (1976) - Francesco Rosi
- Iluminacja / The Illumination (1973) - Krzysztof Zanussi
- I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK (2007) - Park Chan-Wook
- The Image Book (2018) - Jean-Luc Godard
- I'm Not There (2007) - Todd Haynes
- Import/Export (2007) - Ulrich Seidl
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) - Charlie Kaufman
- In A Lonely Place (1950) - Nicholas Ray
- In Bruges (2008) - Martin McDonagh
- Inception (2010) - Christopher Nolan
- In Cold Blood (1967) - Richard Brooks
- India Song (1975) - Marguerite Duras
- Infinite Football (2018) - Corneliu Porumbiou
- In Flames (2023) - Zarrar Kahn
- In Front of Your Face (2021) - Hong Sang-soo
- Inglourious Basterds (2009) - Quentin Tarantino
- Inherent Vice (2014) - Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Inheritance (1962) - Masaki Kobayashi
- Inherit the Wind (1960) - Stanley Kramer
- In Jackson Heights (2015) - Frederick Wiseman
- In July/Im Juli (2000) - Fatih Akin
- Innocent Sorcerers (1960) - Andrzej Wajda
- Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975) - Claude Chabrol
- In Our Day (2023) - Hong Sang-soo
- The Insect Woman (1963) - Shohei Imamura
- Inside Job (2010) - Charles Ferguson
- Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) - Ethan & Joel Coen
- Insomnia (1997) - Eric Skjoldbjaerg
- Intentions of Murder/Unholy Desire (1964) - Shohei Imamura
- Interiors (1978) - Woody Allen
- The International (2009) - Tom Tykwer
- Interrogation (1982) - Ryszard Bugajski
- Interview (1971) - Mrinal Sen
- In the Basement (2014) - Ulrich Seidl
- In the Cut (2003) - Jane Campion
- In the Intense Now (2017) - Joao Moreira Salles
- In the Last Days of the City (2016) - Tamer El Said
- In the Mood for Love (2000) - Wong Kar-Wai
- In the Mouth of Madness (1995) - John Carpenter
- In the Shadow / Ve Stinu (2012) - David Ondricek
- In the Shadow of Women (2015) - Philippe Garrel
- Intimate Lighting (1965) - Ivan Passer
- Intimidation (1960) - Koreyoshi Kurahara
- Intregalde (2021) - Radu Muntean
- Into the Abyss (2011) - Werner Herzog
- Into the Wild (2007) - Sean Penn
- Introduction (2021) - Hong Sang-soo
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) - Elio Petri
- Invisible Stripes (1940) - Lloyd Bacon
- The Irishman (2019) - Martin Scorsese
- The Iron Lady (2011) - Phyllida Lloyd
- Iron Man (2008) - Jon Favreau
- Iron Man 2 (2010) - Jon Favreau
- I Saw the Devil (2010) - Kim Jee-Woon
- I Served the King of England (2007) - Jiri Menzel
- Ishqiya (2010) - Abhishek Chaubey
- Iti Mrinalini / An Unfinished Letter (2011) - Aparna Sen
- It Must Be Heaven (2019) - Elia Suleiman
- It's A Wonderful Life (1946) - Frank Capra
- Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Andrei Tarkovsky
- I Vitelloni (1953) - Federico Fellini
- I Wish (2011) - Hirokazu Kore-eda
- I Wish I Knew (2010) - Jia Zhangke
J
- Jackie (2016) - Pablo Larrain
- Jacquot de Nantes (1991) - Agnes Varda
- Jadu Bansha (1974) - Partha Pratim Choudhury
- Jane B. par Agnes V. (1988) - Agnes Varda
- The Japanese Wife (2010) - Aparna Sen
- Jar City / Myrin (2006) - Baltazar Kormakur
- Jarhead (2005) - Sam Mendes
- Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hai (2022) - Vipin Das
- Jealousy / La Jalousie (2013) - Philippe Garrel
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) - Chantal Akerman
- J. Edgar (2011) - Clint Eastwood
- Jenin, Jenin (2002) - Mohammed Bakri
- Jeremiah Johnson (1972) - Sydney Pollack
- Jerichow (2008) - Christian Petzold
- Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime (1968) - Alain Resnais
- La Jetee (1962) - Chris Marker
- La Jetee (1962) - Chris Marker [REVISIT]
- Je Tu Il Elle (1974) - Chantal Akerman
- John & Jane (2005) - Ashim Ahluwalia
- Johnny Guitar (1954) - Nicholas Ray
- Joi Baba Felunath/The Elephant God (1978) - Satyajit Ray
- Joint Security Area (2000) - Park Chan-Wook
- Joji (2021) - Dileesh Pothan
- Jojo Rabbit (2019) - Taika Waititi
- The Joke / Zert (1969) - Jaromil Jires
- Joker (2019) - Todd Phillips
- Le Joli Mai (1963) - Chris Marker & Pierre L'homme
- Jolly LLB (2013) - Subhash Kapoor
- Jonaki (2018) - Aditya Vikram Sengupta
- Joram (2023) - Devashish Makhija
- Jour de Fete (1949) - Jacques Tati
- Journey to Italy / Viaggio in Italia (1954) - Roberto Rosellini
- Joyland (2022) - Saim Sadiq
- Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) - Shaka King
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - Stanley Kramer
- Jukti Takko Aar Gappo / Reason, Debate and a Story (1974) - Ritwik Ghatak
- El Juicio / The Trial (2023) - Ulises de la Orden
- Jules and Jim (1962) - Francois Truffaut
- Julieta (2016) - Pedro Almodovar
- Junun (2015) - Paul Thomas Anderson
- Juste Avant la Nuit / Just Before Nightfall (1971) - Claude Chabrol
K
- Kaalbela (2009) - Goutam Ghose
- Kaathal / The Core (2023) - Jeo Baby
- Kærestesorger / Aching Hearts (2009) - Nils Malmros
- Kahaani (2012) - Sujoy Ghosh
- Kahini (1995) - Malay Bhattacharya
- Kairat (1992) - Darezhan Omirbaev
- Kaminey (2009) - Vishal Bhradwaj
- Kanal (1956) - Andrzej Wajda
- Kanchenjungha (1962) - Satyajit Ray
- Kannathil Muthamittal/A Peck on the Cheek (2002) - Mani Ratnam
- Karthik Calling Karthik (2010) - Vijay Lalwani
- Katalin Varga (2009) - Peter Strickland
- Kathapurushan / Man of the Story (1995) - Adoor Gopalakrishnan
- Katyn (2007) - Andrzej Wajda
- Kayo Kayo Colour? / Which Colour? (2023) - Shahrukhkhan Chavada
- Kes (1969) - Ken Loach
- Key Largo (1948) - John Huston
- Khamosh (1985) - Vidhu Vinod Chopra
- Kharij / The Case is Closed (1982) - Mrinal Sen
- Kick-Ass (2010) - Matthew Vaughn
- The Kid (1921) - Charlie Chaplin
- Kid Galahad / The Battling Bellhop (1937) - Michael Curtiz
- Kidnap (2008) - Sanjay Gadhvi
- Kidnapped / Rapito (2023) - Marco Bellocchio
- The Kid with a Bike (2011) - Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Kill Bill: Vol.1 (2003) & Vol. 2 (2004) - Quentin Tarantino
- Killer of Sheep (1977) - Charles Burnett
- The Killers (1946) - Robert Siodmak
- Killer's Kiss (1955) - Stanley Kubrick
- Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) - Martin Scorsese
- The Killing (1956) - Stanley Kubrick
- Killing Them Softly (2012) - Andrew Dominik
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) - Yorgos Lanthimos
- Kimi (2022) - Steven Soderbergh
- The Kingdom / Riget (1994) - Lars von Trier
- The Kingdom II / Riget II (1997) - Lars von Trier
- The King of Comedy (1983) - Martin Scorsese
- King of Devil's Island (2010) - Marius Holst
- The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) - Bob Rafelson
- Kings and Queen (2004) - Arnaud Desplechin
- Kings of the Road (1976) - Wim Wenders
- Klute (1971) - Alan J. Pakula
- Knife in the Water (1962) - Roman Polanski
- The King's Speech (2010) - Tom Hooper
- Knives Out (2019) - Rian Johnson
- Kolya (1996) - Jan Sverak
- Komal Gandhar / E-Flat (1961) - Ritwik Ghatak
- Koyaanisqatsi (1982) - Godfrey Reggio
- Kung-Fu Master! / Le Petit Amour (1988) -Agnes Varda
- Kung Fu Panda (2008) - John Stevenson & Mark Osborne
- Kuroneko (1968) - Kaneto Shindo
- Kwaidan / Kaidan (1964) - Masaki Kobayashi
L
- The Lady from Shanghai (1947) - Orson Welles
- Lady in the Lake (1947) - Robert Montgomery
- Lal Darja / The Red Door (1997) - Buddhadeb Dasgupta
- Land and Freedom (1995) - Ken Loach
- Landscape in the Mist (1988) - Theo Angelopoulos
- Landscapes of Resistance (2021) - Marta Popivoda
- Laptop (2012) - Kaushik Ganguly
- Larks on a String (1969) - Jiri Menzel
- The Last Detail (1973) - Hal Ashby
- The Last Lear (2008) - Rituparno Ghosh
- The Last Metro (1980) - Francois Truffaut
- The Last Picture Show (1971) - Peter Bogdanovich
- Last Summer (2023) - Catherine Breillat
- Last Tango in Paris (1972) - Bernardo Bertolucci
- Last Year at Marienbad (1961) - Alain Resnais
- Late Spring (1949) - Yasujiro Ozu
- Laura (1944) - Otto Preminger
- Laurence Anyways (2012) - Xavier Dolan
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - David Lean
- Layer Cake (2004) - Matthew Vaughn
- The Left-Handed Gun (1958) - Arthur Penn
- Leila's Brothers (2022) - Saeed Roustayi
- Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) - Aki Kaurismaki
- Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994) - Aki Kaurismaki
- Leon Morin, Priest (1961) - Jean-Pierre Melville
- The Leopard (1963) - Luchino Visconti
- Let Me In (2010) - Matt Reeves
- Letter from Siberia (1957) - Chris Marker
- Letter to Jane: An Investigation About A Still (1972) - Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Let the Right One In (2008) - Tomas Alfredson
- Let the Sunshine In (2017) - Claire Denis
- Leviathan (2014) - Andrei Zvyagintsev
- Libertate/Freedom (2023) - Tudur Giurgiu
- Licorice Pizza (2021) - Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) - Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
- Life, and Nothing More... (1992) - Abbas Kiarostami
- Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000) - Krzysztof Zanussi
- Life Goes On (2010) - Sangeeta Datta
- Life is a Miracle (2004) - Emir Kusturica
- Life is Sweet (1990) - Mike Leigh
- Life of Pi (2012) - Ang Lee
- Lights in the Dusk (2006) - Aki Kaurismaki
- Like Father, Like Son (2013) - Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Like Someone in Love (2012) - Abbas Kiarostami
- Limelight (1952) - Charlie Chaplin
- Lincoln (2012) - Steven Spielberg
- Lions Love (...and Lies) (1969) - Agnes Varda
- Little Children (2006) - Todd Field
- The Little Drummer Girl (2018) - Park Chan-wook
- Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - Jonathan Dayton
- Little Women (2019) - Greta Gerwig
- Lives of Others / Das Leben Der Anderen (2006) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Living Bad / Viver Mal (2023) - Joao Canijo
- The Lobster (2015) - Yorgos Lanthimos
- Lola (1961) - Jacques Demy
- Lola (1981) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Lonesome Dove (1989) - Simon Wincer
- Long Day's Journey into the Night (2018) - Bi Gan
- The Long Goodbye (1973) - Robert Altman
- Look Back in Anger (1959) - Tony Richardson
- The Look of Silence (2014) - Joshua Oppenheimer
- Lord of the Flies (1963) - Peter Brook
- Lorna's Silence (2008) - Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Los Olvidados / The Young and the Damned (1950) - Luis Bunuel
- The Lost Daughter (2021) - Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Lost Highway (1997) - David Lynch
- Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) - Jonas Mekas
- A Lost Man / Un Homme Perdue (2007) - Danielle Arbid
- The Lost Weekend (1945) - Billy Wilder
- Loulou (1980) - Maurice Pialat
- Love Aaj Kal (2009) - Imtiaz Ali
- Love and Death (1975) - Woody Allen
- Lovefilm (1970) - Istvan Szabo
- Love is Colder than Death (1969) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Loveless (2017) - Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Love on the Run (1979) - Francois Truffaut
- Lover for a Day (2017) - Philippe Garrel
- The Lovers / Les Amants (1958) - Louis Malle
- Lovers Rock (2020) - Steve McQueen
- Loves of a Blonde (1965) - Milos Forman
- Luck by Chance (2009) - Zoya Akhtar
- Lucky Luciano (1973) - Francesco Rosi
- Lust, Caution (2007) - Ang Lee
- The Lying Life of Adults (2023) - Edoardo De Angelis
M
- M (1931) - Fritz Lang
- Madame de... / The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) - Max Ophuls
- Made in Hong Kong (1997) - Fruit Chan
- Made in USA (1966) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Mademoiselle (1966) - Tony Anderson
- Madly Bengali (2009) - Anjan Dutt
- The Magic Gloves (2003) - Martin Rejtman
- The Magician/Ansiktet (1958) - Ingmar Bergman
- The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) - Orson Welles
- Magnolia (1999) - Paul Thomas Anderson
- Mahanagar / The Big City (1963) - Satyajit Ray
- Mahanagar / The Big City (1963) - Satyajit Ray [REVISIT]
- Mahanagar@Kolkata / Metropolis@Kolkata (2010) - Suman Mukhopadhyay
- Major Dundee (1965) - Sam Peckinpah
- Malayankunju (2022) - Sajimon Prabhakar
- Malena (2000) - Giuseppe Tornatore
- Malmkrog (2020) - Cristi Puiu
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) - John Huston
- Mama Turns 100 (1979) - Carlos Saura
- Mamma Roma (1962) - Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Mammo (1994) - Shyam Benegal
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - John Frankemheimer
- Mandi (1983) - Shyam Benegal
- The Man from Laramie (1955) - Anthony Mann
- The Man from London (2007) - Bela Tarr
- Mangrove (2020) - Steve McQueen
- Manhattan (1979) - Woody Allen
- Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) - Woody Allen
- Man of Marble (1976) - Andrzej Wajda
- Man of the West (1958) - Anthony Mann
- Man on the Tracks (1956) - Andrzej Munk
- Manorama Six Feet Under (2007) - Navdeep Singh
- The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970) - Nagisa Oshima
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (1962) - John Ford
- The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) - Ethan & Joel Coen
- The Man With a Movie Camera (1929) - Dziga Vertov
- The Man without a Past (2002) - Aki Kaurismaki
- Marathon Man (1976) - John Schlesinger
- Mariner of the Mountains (2021) - Karim Ainouz
- The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Marriage Story (2019) - Noah Baumbach
- Martin (1978) - George A. Romero
- Marx Can Wait (2021) - Marco Bellocchio
- Masculin
Feminin (1966) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Masculin Feminin (1966) - Jean-Luc Godard [REVISIT]
- M*A*S*H (1970) - Robert Altman
- The Master (2012) - Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Match Factory Girl (1990) - Aki Kaurismaki
- Match Point (2005) - Woody Allen
- The Matrix Resurrections (2021) - Lana Wachowski
- The Mattei Affair / Il Caso Mattei (1972) - Francesco Rosi
- Matthias & Maxime (2019) - Xavier Dolan
- Mauvais Sang / Bad Blood (1986) - Leos Carax
- Maya (2018) - Mia Hansen-Love
- May December (2023) - Todd Haynes
- May Fools (1990) - Louis Malle
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) - Robert Altman
- Mean Streets (1973) - Martin Scorsese
- Meantime (1983) - Mike Leigh
- Meek's Cutoff (2010) - Kelly Reichardt
- The Meetings of Anna (1978) - Chantal Akerman
- Meghe Dhaka Tara / The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) - Ritwik Ghatak
- Melancholia (2011) - Lars von Trier
- Memento (2000) - Christopher Nolan
- Memoria (2021) - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Memories in March (2011) - Sanjoy Nag
- Memories of Murder (2003) - Bong Joon-Ho
- Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) - Tomas Gutierrez Alea
- Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros (2023) - Frederick Wiseman
- Le Mepris / Contempt (1963) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Le Mepris / Contempt (1963) - Jean-Luc Godard [REVISIT]
- Merci pour le Chocolat / Nightcap (2000) - Claude Chabrol
- Metronom (2022) - Alexandru Belc
- The Meyerowitz Stories (2017) - Noah Baumbach
- Mia Madre (2015) - Nanni Moretti
- Midnight Cowboy (1969) - John Schlesinger
- Midnight in Paris (2011) - Woody Allen
- Mildred Pierce (2011) - Todd Haynes
- Milk (2008) - Gus Van Sant
- Miller's Crossing (1990) - Ethan & Joel Coen
- Minari (2020) - Lee Isaac Chung
- Minority Report (2002) - Steven Spielberg
- Mirch Masala (1987) - Ketan Mehta
- The Mirror (1975) - Andrei Tarkovsky
- Les Miserables (2019) - Ladj Ly
- Missing (1982) - Costa-Gavras
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) - Brad Bird
- Miss Lovely (2012) - Ashim Ahluwalia
- Mistress America (2015) - Noah Baumbach
- Moderato Cantabile / Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960) - Peter Brook
- Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho! / Summons for Mohan Joshi (1984) - Saeed Akhtar Mirza
- Mommy (2014) - Xavier Dolan
- Moner Manush / Quest (2010) - Goutam Ghose
- Moneyball (2011) - Bennett Miller
- Monica, O My Darling (2022) - Vasan Bala
- Mon Oncle (1958) - Jacques Tati
- Mon Oncle (1958) - Jacques Tati [REVIST]
- Monsieur Klein (1976) - Joseph Losey
- Monsieur Verdoux (1947) - Charlie Chaplin
- Monster (2023) - Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Morvern Callar (2002) - Lynne Ramsay
- Mother (2009) - Bong Joon-ho
- The Mother and the Whore (1973) - Jean Eustache
- The Mother of All Lies (2023) - Asmae El Moudir
- Mother of Mine / Aideista Parhain (2005) - Klaus Haro
- The Motorcycle Diaries / Diarios De Motocicleta (2003) - Walter Salles Jr.
- Mouchette (1967) - Robert Bresson
- Mountains May Depart (2015) - Jia Zhangke
- Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021) - Maria Speth
- Mr. Brooks (2007) - Bruce A. Evans
- Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953) - Jacques Tati
- Munich (2005) - Steven Spielberg
- Murder, My Sweet (1944) - Edward Dmytryk
- Mur Murs (1980) - Agnes Varda
- Music (2023) - Angela Schanelec
- Music Box (1989) - Costa-Gavras
- My Blueberry Nights (2007) - Wong Kar-Wai
- My Darling Clementine (1946) - John Ford
- My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1984) - Aleksei German
- My Imaginary Country (2022) - Patricio Guzman
- My Night at Maud's (1969) - Eric Rohmer
- My Own Private Idaho (1991) - Gus Van Sant
- My Perestroika (2010) - Robin Hessman
- Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) - Raul Ruiz
- Mystic River (2003) - Clint Eastwood
- My Winnipeg (2007) - Guy Maddin
N
- Naboer / Next Door (2005) - Pal Sletaune
- Nainsukh (2010) - Amit Dutta
- Naked (1993) - Mike Leigh
- Naked Childhood (1969) - Maurice Pialat
- The Naked City (1948) - Jules Dassin
- The Naked Kiss (1964) - Samuel Fuller
- The Naked Spur (1953) - Anthony Mann
- Naseem (1995) - Saeed Akhtar Mirza
- Nashville (1975) - Robert Altman
- Nasir (2020) - Arun Karthick
- Natural Sciences (2014) - Matias Lucchesi
- Nayak / The Hero (1966) - Satyajit Ray
- Nayak / The Hero (1966) - Satyajit Ray [REVISIT]
- Nayakan / Nayagan (1987) - Mani Ratnam
- Nebraska (2013) - Alexander Payne
- Neighbouring Sounds (2012) - Kleber Mendonca Filho
- Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995) - Claude Sautet
- Nelly & Nadine (2022) - Magnus Gertten
- Neruda (2016) - Pablo Larrain
- Network (1976) - Sidney Lumet
- Never Look Away (2018) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) - Eliza Hittman
- New Delhi Times (1986) - Ramesh Sharma
- News from Home (1977) - Chantal Akerman
- New York Stories (1989) - Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola & Woody Allen
- Nice Guy (2012) - Pascal Bergamin
- Night Across the Street (2012) - Raul Ruiz
- Night and Fog (1956) - Alain Resnais
- Night and the City (1950) - Jules Dassin
- The Night Buffalo / El Bufalo de la Noche (2006) - Jorge Hernandez Aldana
- Nightmare Alley (1947) - Edmund Goulding
- Night Moves (2013) - Kelly Reichardt
- The Night of the Hunter (1955) - Charles Laughton
- Nights of Cabiria (1957) - Federico Fellini
- Night Train (1959) - Jerzy Kawalerowicz
- Nine Months (1976) - Marta Meszaros
- 1947 Earth (1999) - Deepa Mehta
- 1900 / Novecento (1976) - Bernardo Bertolucci
- 1917 (2019) - Sam Mendes
- No (2012) - Pablo Larrain
- No Bears (2022) - Jafar Panahi
- No Country for Old Men (2007) - Ethan & Joel Coen
- No End (1985) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
- No Home Movie (2015) - Chantal Akerman
- Noite Vazia (1964) - Walter Hugo Khouri
- Nomadland (2020) - Chloe Zhao
- No Man's Land (2001) - Danis Tanovic
- Non-Fiction (2018) - Olivier Assayas
- Nope (2022) - Jordan Peele
- Norte, the End of History (2013) - Lav Diaz
- North by Northwest (1959) - Alfred Hitchcock
- Nostalgia for the Light (2010) - Patricio Guzman
- Notes on a Scandal (2006) - Richard Eyre
- No Time to Die (2021) - Cary Joji Fukunaga
- Notorious (1946) - Alfred Hitchcock
- Not Reconciled (1965) - Jean-Marie Straub
- La Notte / The Night (1961) - Michelangelo Antonioni
- Noukadubi/Boat Wreck (2010) - Rituparno Ghosh
- The Novelist's Film (2022) - Hong Sang-soo
- Nowhere in Africa (2001) - Caroline Link
- La Nuit Americaine / Day for Night (1973) - Francois Truffaut
- Numero Deux (1975) - Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Mieville
O
- Occupied City (2023) - Steve McQueen
- Oki's Movie (2010) - Hong Sang-soo
- Oldboy / Oldeuboi (2003) - Park Chan-Wook
- The Old Oak (2023) - Ken Loach
- Om Dar-B-Dar (1988) - Kamal Swaroop
- Omkara (2006) - Vishal Bharadwaj
- Once (2007) - John Carney
- Once Upon A Time in America (1984) - Sergio Leone
- Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (2011) - Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Once Upon A Time in Calcutta (2021) - Aditya Vikram Sengupta
- Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019) - Quentin Tarantino
- Once Upon A Time in the West (1968) - Sergio Leone
- Once Upon A Time There Was A Country (1995) - Emir Kusturica
- One Fine Morning / Un Beau Matin (2022) - Mia Hansen-Love
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Milos Forman
- One P.M. (1971) - Jean-Luc Godard, D.A. Pennebaker & Richard Leacock
- One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) - Agnes Varda
- 127 Hours (2010) - Danny Boyle
- Onibaba (1964) - Kaneto Shindo
- On the Beach at Night Alone (2017) - Hong Sang-soo
- Open Tee Bioscope (2015) - Anindya Chatterjee
- Open Your Eyes (1997) - Alejandro Amenabar
- Oppenheimer (2023) - Christopher Nolan
- Ordet / The Word (1955) - Carl Theodore Dreyer
- The Orphanage / El Orphanto (2007) - Juan Antonio Bayona
- Ossessione (1943) - Luchino Visconti
- The Other Side of Hope (2017) - Aki Kaurismaki
- The Other Side of the Wind (2018) - Orson Welles
- Our Little Sister (2015) - Hirokazu Kore-eda
- The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) - Clint Eastwood
- Out of the Past (1947) - Jacques Tourneur
- Out 1: Noli Me Tangere (1971) - Jacques Rivette
- Our Body / Notre Corps (2023) - Claire Simon
- The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) - William A. Wellman
- Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008) - Dibakar Banerjee
- Ozhivudivasathe Kali (2015) - Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
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- Paan Singh Tomar (2012) - Tigmanshu Dhulia
- Paar / The Crossing (1984) - Goutam Ghose
- Pada (2022) - Kamal K.M.
- Pain and Glory (2019) - Pedro Almodovar
- Paisan (1946) - Roberto Rossellini
- Pale Flower (1964) - Masahiro Shinoda
- The Palestinians (1975) - Johan van der Keuken
- Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - Guillermo Del Toro
- Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - Guillermo Del Toro [REVISIT]
- Paradise: Faith (2012) - Ulrich Seidl
- Paradise: Hope (2013) - Ulrich Seidl
- Paradise: Love (2012) - Ulrich Seidl
- Paradise Now (2005) - Hany Abu-Assad
- The Parallax View (1974) - Alan J. Pakula
- Parallel Mothers (2021) - Pedro Almodovar
- Paranoid Park (2007) - Gus Van Sant
- Parasite (2019) - Bong Joon-ho
- Parinda (1989) - Vidhu Vinod Chopra
- Paris Belongs to Us (1961) - Jacques Rivette
- Paris Calligrammes (2020) - Ulrike Ottinger
- Paris, Texas (1984) - Wim Wenders
- Paris, Texas (1984) - Wim Wenders [REVISIT]
- Paris, 13th District / Les Olympiades (2021) - Jacques Audiard
- Paroma (1984) - Aparna Sen
- Paromitar Ek Din / House of Memories (2000) - Aparna Sen
- Party (1984) - Govind Nihalani
- The Party and the Guests (1966) - Jan Nemec
- Passage to Marseille (1944) - Michael Curtiz
- Le Passe / The Past (2013) - Asghar Farhadi
- Passenger / Pasazerka (1963) - Andrzej Munk
- The Passenger (1975) - Michelangelo Antonioni
- Passion (1982) - Jean-Luc Godard
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) - Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Paterson (2016) - Jim Jarmusch
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) - Sam Peckinpah
- Pather Panchali / Song of the Little Road (1955) - Satyajit Ray
- Paths of Glory (1957) - Stanley Kubrick
- Pauline at the Beach (1983) - Eric Rohmer
- The Pawnbroker (1964) - Sidney Lumet
- The Pearl Button (2015) - Patricio Guzman
- Pearls of the Deep (1966) - Jiri Menzel, Jan Nemec, Evald Schorm, Vera Chytilova, Jaromil Jires
- Peeping Tom (1960) - Michael Powell
- Peppermint Frappe (1967) - Carlos Saura
- Perfect Days (2023) - Wim Wenders
- Persepolis (2007) - Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud
- Persona (1966) - Ingmar Bergman
- Personel (1975) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Petite Fleur: 15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour (2022) - Santiago Mitre
- Petite Maman (2021) - Celine Sciamma
- Le Petit Soldat (1963) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Petrov's Flu (2021) - Kirill Serebrennikov
- The Phantom of Liberty (1974) - Luis Bunuel
- Phoenix (2014) - Christian Petzold
- The Piano Teacher / La Pianiste (2001) - Michael Haneke
- Pickpocket (1959) - Robert Bresson
- Pickup on South Street (1953) - Sam Fuller
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) - Peter Weir
- Pictures of Ghosts (2023) - Kleber Mendonca Filho
- Pierrot Le Fou/Crazy Pete (1965) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Pierrot Le Fou (1965) - Jean-Luc Godard [REVISIT]
- Pieta (2012) - Kim Ki-Duk
- The Pigeon Tunnel (2023) - Errol Morris
- Pigs and Battleships (1961) - Shohei Imamura
- The Pinochet Case (2001) - Patricio Guzman
- La Piscine / The Swimming Pool (1969) - Jacques Deray
- Pitfall (1948) - Andre De Toth
- Pity (2018) - Babis Makridis
- The Player (1992) - Robert Altman
- Play It Again, Sam (1972) - Herbert Ross
- Playtime (1967) - Jacques Tati
- Playtime (1967) - Jacques Tati [REVISIT]
- The Pledge (2001) - Sean Penn
- The Plough / Le Grand Chariot (2023) - Philippe Garrel
- Poetry (2010) - Lee Chang-dong
- Point Blank (1967) - John Boorman
- La Pointe Courte (1955) - Agnes Varda
- Police, Adjective / Politist, Adj. (2009) - Corneliu Porumboiu
- Poor Things (2023) - Yorgos Lanthimos
- The Pornographers (1966) - Shohei Imamura
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) - Celine Sciamma
- Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels (1994) - Chantal Akerman
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) - Tay Garnett
- Post Mortem (2010) - Pablo Larrain
- Post Tenebras Lux (2012) - Carlos Reygadas
- The Power of the Dog (2021) - Jane Campion
- The Practice (1997-2004) - David E. Kelly
- Pravda (1969) - Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Henri Roger
- Prenom Carmen / First Name: Carmen (1983) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Prince of the City (1981) - Sidney Lumet
- Prisoners (2013) - Denis Villeneuve
- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) - Billy Wilder
- La Promesse (1996) - Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Prometheus (2012) - Ridley Scott
- Promise Me This (2007) - Emir Kusturica
- The Proposition (2005) - John Hillcoat
- The Prowler (1951) - Joseph Losey
- Public Enemies (2009) - Michael Mann
- Pulp Fiction (1994) - Quentin Tarantino
- Punch Drunk Love (2002) - Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Puppetmaster (1993) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Purple Noon / Plein Soleil (1960) - Rene Clement
- The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) - Woody Allen
Q
- Q & A (1990) - Sidney Lumet
- Quantum of Solace (2008) - Mark Forster
- Quicksand (1950) - Irving Pichel
- The Quiet Family (1998) - Kim Jee-Woon
- Quiz Show (1994) - Robert Redford
R
- Raajneeti / Politics (2010) - Prakash Jha
- Rabindranath Tagore (1961) - Satyajit Ray
- Rabiye Kurnaz Vs. George W. Bush (2022) - Andreas Dresen
- Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) - Aditya Chopra
- Race (2008) - Abbas-Mustan
- Radio Days (1987) - Woody Allen
- Raging Bull (1980) - Martin Scorsese
- Raining Stones (1993) - Ken Loach
- Ran (1985) - Akira Kurosawa
- Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na (2011) - Anjan Dutt
- Rashomon (1950) - Akira Kurosawa
- Ratcatcher (1999) - Lynne Ramsay
- Raw Deal (1948) - Anthony Mann
- The Reader (2008) - Stephen Daldry
- Rear Window (1954) - Alfred Hitchcock
- Rebels of the Neon God (1992) - Tsai Ming-Liang
- Recollections of the Yellow House (1989) - Joao Cesar Monteiro
- Reconstruction / Anaparastasi (1970) - Theo Angelopoulos
- Red Africa (2022) - Alexander Markov
- Red Desert (1964) - Michelangelo Antonioni
- Red Post on Escher Street (2020) - Sion Sono
- Red Psalm (1972) - Miklos Jancso
- Red River (1948) - Howard Hawks
- Red Violin (1998) - Francois Girard
- Red, White and Blue (2020) - Steve McQueen
- Regular Lovers / Les Amants Reguliers (2005) - Philippe Garrel
- Repulsion (1965) - Roman Polanski
- Reservoir Dogs (1992) - Quentin Tarantino
- Revanche / Revenge (2008) - Gotz Spielmann
- Revolutionary Road (2008) - Sam Mendes
- Ride Lonesome (1959) - Budd Boetticher
- Ride the High Country (1962) - Sam Peckinpah
- Ride the Pink Horse (1947) - Robert Montgomery
- Riff-Raff (1991) - Ken Loach
- Rififi / Du Rififi Chez les Hommes (1955) - Jules Dassin
- Righteous Kill (2008) - Jon Avnet
- Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) - Hong Sang-soo
- Rimini (2022) - Ulrich Seidl
- Rio Bravo (1959) - Howard Hawks
- Rio Grande (1950) - John Ford
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) - Rupert Wyatt
- R.M.N. (2022) - Cristian Mungiu
- The Roaring Twenties (1939) - Raoul Walsh
- Rocco and His Brothers (1960) - Luchino Visconti
- RocknRolla (2008) - Guy Ritchie
- Rockstar (2011) - Imtiaz Ali
- Roja (1992) - Mani Ratnam
- Roma (2018) - Alfonso Cuaron
- Romeo is Bleeding (1994) - Peter Medak
- Rome, Open City (1945) - Roberto Rossellini
- Rosemary's Baby (1968) - Roman Polansk
- Rosetta (1999) - Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Rounders (1998) - John Dahl
- The Round-Up (1965) - Miklos Jancso
- Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (2003) - Eyal Sivan & Michel Khleifi
- Royal Bengal Rahasya (2011) - Sandip Ray
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - Wes Anderson
- The Rules of the Geme / La Regle du Jeu (1939) - Jean Renoir
- Run Lola Run (1998) - Tom Tykwer
- Rushmore (1998) - Wes Anderson
S
- 7 Khoon Maaf (2011) - Vishal Bharadwaj
- Saat Pake Bandha (1963) - Ajoy Kar
- Sabrina (1954) - Billy Wilder
- Sacred Games (2018) - Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane
- Sacred Games: Season 2 (2019) - Anurag Kashyap, Neeraj Ghaywan
- The Sacrifice / Offret (1986) - Andrei Tarkovsky
- Sadgati / The Deliverance (1981) - Satyajit Ray
- Safari (2016) - Ulrich Seidl
- Safe House (2012) - Daniel Espinosa
- Salaam Bombay! (1988) - Mira Nair
- Salaam Cinema (1995) - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro (1989) - Saeed Akhtar Mirza
- The Salt of Tears (2020) - Philippe Garrel
- Salvatore Guiliano (1962) - Francesco Rosi
- Samaritan Girl (2004) - Kim Ki-Duk
- Le Samourai / The Samurai (1967) - Jean-Pierre Melville
- Samurai Rebellion (1967) - Masaki Kobayashi
- Sang-e-Meel Se Mulaqat (1989) - Goutam Ghose
- Sanjhbatir Rupkathara / Strokes & Silhouettes (2002) - Anjan Das
- San Quentin (1937) - Lloyd Bacon
- Sansho the Bailiff (1954) - Kenji Mizoguchi
- Sans Soleil (1983) - Chris Marker
- Salut les Cubains (1963) - Agnes Varda
- Salvador Allende (2004) - Patricio Guzman
- Satantango / Satan's Tango (1994) - Bela Tarr
- Satyajit Ray Negatives: My Life with Manikda (2005) - Bo Van der Werf
- The Savages (2007) - Tamara Jenkins
- Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) - Ingmar Bergman
- The Scar / Blizna (1976) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Scarlet Street (1945) - Fritz Lang
- Scenes from a Marriage (1973) - Ingmar Bergman
- S Durga (2017) - Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
- The Searchers (1956) - John Ford
- Sea Shadow (2011) - Nawaf Al-Janahi
- The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) - Juan Jose Campanella
- Secrets & Lies (1996) - Mike Leigh
- Section Speciale / Special Section (1975) - Costa-Gavras
- Seduced and Abandoned (1964) - Pietro Germi
- Seemabaddha / Company Limited (1971) - Satyajit Ray
- See You Friday, Robinson (2022) - Mitra Farahani
- Senso (1954) - Luchino Visconti
- A Separation (2011) - Asghar Farhadi
- September (1987) - Woody Allen
- A Serious Man (2009) - Ethan & Joel Coen
- Serpico (1973) - Sidney Lumet
- The Servant (1963) - Joseph Losey
- The Set-Up (1949) - Robert Wise
- Seven / Se7en (1995) - David Fincher
- Seven Beauties (1975) - Lina Wertmuller
- Seven Samurai / Shichinin No Samurai (1954) - Akira Kurosawa
- Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) - Tatyana Lioznova
- The Seventh Continent (1989) - Michael Haneke
- The Seventh Seal (1957) - Ingmar Bergman
- Sex and Lucia / Lucia y el Sexo (2001) - Julio Medem
- Shabdo / Sound (2013) - Kaushik Ganguly
- Shadows in Paradise (1986) - Aki Kaurismaki
- Shaitan (2011) - Bejoy Nambiar
- Shakespeare Wallah (1965) - James Ivory
- Shakha Proshakha / The Branches of a Tree (1990) - Satyajit Ray
- Shame (1968) - Ingmar Bergman
- Shame (2011) - Steve McQueen
- Shameless (2012) - Filip Marczewski
- Shane (1953) - George Stevens
- Shanghai (2012) - Dibakar Bannerjee
- Shart / The Bet (1986) - Ketan Anand
- Shatranj Ke Khiladi / The Chess Player (1977) - Satyajit Ray
- She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949) - John Ford
- Sherlock Holmes (2009) - Guy Ritchie
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) - Guy Ritchie
- Sherlock Jr. (1924) - Buster Keaton
- Shield of Straw (2013) - Takashi Miike
- The Shining (1980) - Stanley Kubrick
- Shoah (1985) - Claude Lanzmann
- Shob Choritro Kalponik / Afterword (2009) - Rituparno Ghosh
- The Shooting (1966) - Monte Hellman
- Shoplifters (2018) - Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Short Cuts (1993) - Robert Altman
- A Short Film About Killing (1988) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
- A Short Film About Love (1988) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
- A Short Working Day (1981) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Shoot the Piano Player / Tirez Sur Le Pianiste (1960) - Francois Truffaut
- The Shop on Main Street / Obchod na Korze (1965) - Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos
- Shotgun Stories (2007) - Jeff Nichols
- Showing Up (2022) - Kelly Reichardt
- Shukno Lanka (2010) - Gaurab Pandey
- Shutter Island (2010) - Martin Scorsese
- Sicario (2015) - Denis Villeneuve
- The Sicilian Clan (1969) - Henri Verneuil
- Sieranevada (2016) - Cristi Puiu
- The Silence (1963) - Ingmar Bergman
- The Silence (2010) - Baran bo Odar
- The Silence of the Sea / Le Silence de la Mer (1949) - Jean-Pierre Melville
- Silent Wedding (2008) - Horatju Malaele
- Silver Linings Playbook (2012) - David O. Russell
- Silvia Prieto (1999) - Martin Rejtman
- Simon of the Desert (1965) - Luis Bunuel
- Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
- Sister (2012) - Ursula Meier
- The Skin I Live In (2011) - Pedro Almodovar
- Skyfall (2012) - Sam Mendes
- Sleeper (1973) - Woody Allen
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - Danny Boyle
- Small Town Murder Songs (2010) - Ed Gass-Donnelly
- Smritimedur / Pleasant Remembrances (2009) - Sunit Bhattacharya
- The Sniper (1952) - Edward Dmytryk
- Snowpiercer (2013) - Bong Joon-ho
- The Snowtown Murders (2011) - Justin Kurzel
- The Social Network (2010) - David Fincher
- The Soft Skin (1964) - Francois Truffaut
- Something in the Air (2012) - Olivier Assayas
- Solaris / Solyaris (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky
- Some Like It Hot (1959) - Billy Wilder
- Somewhere (2010) - Sofia Coppola
- Somewhere in the Night (1946) - Joseph L. Mankeiwicz
- The Son / Le Fils (2002) - Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Sonar Kella / The Golden Fortress (1974) - Satyajit Ray
- Songs from the Second Floor (2000) - Roy Andersson
- Son of Saul (2015) - Laszlo Nemes
- The Son's Room (2001) - Nanni Moretti
- Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) - Marc Rothemund
- Sorcerer (1977) - William Friedkin
- Sorry We Missed Out (2019) - Ken Loach
- The Souvenir (2019) - Joanna Hogg
- The Souvenir Part II (2021) - Joanna Hogg
- Sparta (2022) - Ulrich Seidl
- Spencer (2021) - Pablo Larrain
- Spider (2002) - David Cronenberg
- The Spiral Staircase (1946) - Robert Siodmak
- The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) - Victor Erice
- Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (2003) - Kim Ki-Duk
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) - Martin Ritt
- The Square (2008) - Nash Edgerton
- The Squid and the Whale (2005) - Noah Baumbach
- Stalag 17 (1953) - Billy Wilder
- Stalker (1979) - Andrei Tarkovsky
- Stardust Memories (1980) - Woody Allen
- State of Siege (1972) - Costa-Gavras
- Sthaniya Sambaad / Spring in the Colony (2009) - Moinak Biswas & Arjun Gourisaria
- Still Life (2006) - Jia Zhangke
- Still Walking (2008) - Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Stoker (2013) - Park Chan-Wook
- Stolen Desire (1958) - Shohei Imamura
- Stolen Kisses (1968) - Francois Truffaut
- Stories We Tell (2012) - Sarah Polley
- Story of Women (1988) - Claude Chabrol
- A Story Written with Water (1965) - Yoshishige Yoshida
- La Strada (1954) - Federico Fellini
- The Strange Case of Angelica (2010) - Manoel de Oliveira
- Stranger than Paradise (1984) - Jim Jarmusch
- Straw Dogs (1971) - Sam Peckinpah
- Stray Dogs (2013) - Tsai Ming-liang
- Stress Is Three (1968) - Carlos Saura
- Stromboli (1950) - Roberto Rossellini
- Stroszek (1977) - Werner Herzog
- Struggle in Italy (1970) - Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Subarnarekha / The Golden Thread (1965) - Ritwik Ghatak
- Subarnarekha / The Golden Thread (1965) - Ritwik Ghatak [REVISIT]
- Sucker Punch (2011) - Zack Snyder
- Sud / South (1999) - Chantal Akerman
- Sukumar Ray (1987) - Satyajit Ray
- Summer / The Green Ray (1986) - Eric Rohmer
- Summer Hours (2008) - Olivier Assayas
- A Summer's Tale (1996) - Eric Rohmer
- Summer with Monika (1953) - Ingmar Bergman
- Sunglass (2012) - Rituparno Ghosh
- The Sun in a Net (1963) - Stefan Uher
- Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Billy Wilder
- Super (2010) - James Gunn
- The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991) - Theo Angelopoulos
- Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - Alexander MacKendrick
- The Swindle (1997) - Claude Chabrol
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) - William Greaves
- Sympathy for Lady Vengeance / Lady Vengeance (2005) - Park Chan-Wook
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) - Park Chan-Wook
- Sympathy for the Devil / One Plus One (1968) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Synecdoche, New York (2008) - Charlie Kaufman
- The Sweet Hereafter (1997) - Atom Egoyan
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- Tabu (2012) - Miguel Gomes
- Tahader Katha / Their Story (1992) - Buddhadeb Dasgupta
- Take Aim at the Police Van (1960) - Seijun Suzuki
- Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994) - Aki Kaurismaki
- Taken (2008) - Pierre Morel
- Take the Money and Run (1969) - Woody Allen
- Takhan Teish / He Was 23 (2011) - Atanu Ghosh
- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) - Tony Scott
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - Joseph Sargent
- Tale of Cinema (2005) - Hong Sang-soo
- A Tale of Springtime (1990) - Eric Rohmer
- A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) - Kim Jee-Woon
- A Tale of Winter (1992) - Eric Rohmer
- Tales from the Crypt (1972) - Freddie Francis
- Tales from the Golden Age (2009) - Cristian Mungiu et al
- Talk to Her (2002) - Pedro Almodovar
- The Tall T (1957) - Budd Boetticher
- Taming the Garden (2021) - Salome Tashi
- Tar (2022) - Todd Field
- Taste of Cherry (1997) - Abbas Kiarostami
- Taxi Driver (1976) - Martin Scorsese
- Taxi Tehran (2015) - Jafar Panahi
- The Teachers' Lounge (2023) - Ilker Catak
- The Tenant (1976) - Roman Polanski
- Teorema (1968) - Pier Paolo Pasolini
- The Terminator (1984) & Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) - James Cameron
- Terminator Salvation (2009) - McG
- Terrestrial Verses (2023) - Ali Asgari & Alireza Khatami
- That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) - Luis Bunuel
- Thelma and Louise (1991) - Ridley Scott
- There Is No Evil (2020) - Mohammad Rasoulof
- There's Still Tomorrow (2023) - Paola Cortellesi
- They Drive by Night (1940) - Raoul Walsh
- Thieves' Highway (1949) - Jules Dassin
- The Thin Blue Line (1988) - Errol Morris
- The Thing (1982) - John Carpenter
- Things to Come (2016) - Mia Hansen-Love
- The Third Generation (1979) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- The Third Lover (1962) - Claude Chabrol
- The Third Man (1949) - Carol Reed
- The Third Man (1949) - Carol Reed [REVISIT]
- The Third Murder (2017) - Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Thirst for Love (1967) - Koreyoshi Kurahara
- 13 Tzameti (2005) - Gela Babluani
- 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981) - Aparna Sen
- This Man Must Die (1969) - Claude Chabrol
- This Is It (2009) - Kenny Ortega
- This is Not a Film (2011) - Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
- Thor (2011) - Kenneth Branagh
- Three Brothers (1981) - Francesco Rosi
- Three Colors / Trois Couleurs: Red/Rouge (1993), White/Blanc (1994), Blue/Bleu (1994) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Three Days of the Condor (1975) - Sidney Pollack
- Three... Extremes (2004): Dumplings, Cut, Box - Fruit Chan, Park Chan-Wook, Takashi Mike
- Three Floors (2021) - Nanni Moretti
- 3-Iron / Bin-Jip (2004) - Kim Ki-Duk
- 3:10 to Yuma (1957) - Delmer Daves
- Throne of Blood / Kumonosu-jo (1957) - Akira Kurosawa
- Through a Glass Darkly (1961) - Ingmar Bergman
- Through the Olive Trees (1994) - Abbas Kiarostami
- THX 1138 (1971) - George Lucas
- Time (2020) - Garrett Bradley
- Time of My Life (2012) - Nic Balthazar
- The Time that Remains (2009) - Elia Suleiman
- The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) - John Irvin
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011) - Tomas Alfredson
- Tintin and I / Tintin et Moi (2003) - Anders Høgsbro Østergaard
- Tintorettor Jishu / Tintoretto's Jesus (2004) - Sandip Ray
- Titane (2021) - Julia Ducournau
- Titash Ekti Nodir Naam / A River Called Titas (1973) - Ritwik Ghatak
- T-Men (1947) - Anthony Mann
- To Die For (1995) - Gus Van Sant
- To Have and Have Not (1944) - Howard Hawks
- Tokyo Drifter (1966) - Seijun Suzuki
- Tokyo Sonata (2008) - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Tokyo Story (1953) - Yasujiro Ozu
- Tomboy (2011) - Celine Sciamma
- Tommaso (2019) - Abel Ferrara
- Tony Erdmann (2016) - Maren Ade
- Tony Manero (2008) - Pablo Larrain
- Tori and Lokita (2022) - Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- To Rome with Love (2012) - Woody Allen
- Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954) - Jacques Becker
- Touch of Evil (1958) - Orson Welles
- The Tourist (2010) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Toute Une Nuit (1982) - Chantal Akerman
- Tout Va Bien (1972) - Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin
- The Tracey Fragments (2007) - Bruce McDonald
- Traffic (2000) - Steven Soderbergh
- Trafic (1971) - Jacques Tati
- Trainspotting (1996) - Danny Boyle
- Transit (2018) - Christian Petzold
- The Travelling Players (1975) - Theo Angelopoulos
- The Treasure (2015) - Corneliu Porumboiu
- The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948) - John Huston
- Trees Lounge (1996) - Steve Buscemi
- Trenque Lauquen (2022) - Laura Citarella
- The Trial (1962) - Orson Welles
- Triangle of Sadness (2022) - Ruben Ostlund
- Tristana (1970) - Luis Bunuel
- Le Trou / The Hole (1960) - Jacques Becker
- Trouble Every Day (2001) - Claire Denis
- True Detective (2014, 2015, 2019) - Nic Pizzolatto, Cary Joji Fukunaga et al
- True Romance (1993) - Tony Scott
- The Truth / La Verite (2019) - Hirokazu Kore-eda
- The Tsugua Diaries (2021) - Maureen Fazendeiro & Miguel Gomes
- Tuesday, After Christmas (2010) - Rudu Muntean
- The Turin Horse (2011) - Bela Tarr
- Turtles Can Fly (2004) - Bahman Ghobadi
- 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) - Corneliu Porumboiu
- 12 Angry Men (1957) - Sidney Lumet
- 12 Monkeys (1995) - Terry Gilliam
- 12 Years A Slave (2013) - Steve McQueen
- 28 Days Later (2002) - Danny Boyle
- 25 Fireman's Street (1973) - Istvan Szabo
- 24 (2001-2010) - Miscellaneous
- 24 City (2008) - Jia Zhangke
- 21 Grams (2003) - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
- 20,000 Species of Bees (2023) - Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
- Two Days, One Night (2014) - Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Two in the Wave (2010) - Emmanuel Laurent
- The Two of Them (1977) - Marta Meszaros
- 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967) - Jean-Luc Godard
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Stanley Kubrick
- 2046 (2004) - Wong Kar-Wai
U
- Ucho / The Ear (1970) - Karel Kachyna
- Udaan (2010) - Vikramaditya Motwane
- Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) - Kenji Mizoguchi
- Ulysse (1982) - Agnes Varda
- Ulysses' Gaze (1995) - Theo Angelopoulos
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) - Jacques Demy
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Unclenching the Fists (2021) - Kira Kovalenko
- Uncle Yanco (1967) - Agnes Varda
- Uncut Gems (2019) - Josh & Benny Safdie
- Underground (1995) - Emir Kusturica
- Under the Sand (2000) - Francois Ozon
- Undine (2020) - Christian Petzold
- The Unfaithful Wife / La Femme Infedele (1969) - Claude Chabrol
- United Red Army (2007) - Koji Wakamatsu
- The Unknown Girl (2016) - Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Unstoppable (2010) - Tony Scott
- Until Tomorrow (2022) - Ali Asgari
- Up (2009) - Pete Doctor & Bob Peterson
- Up in the Air (2009) - Jason Reitman
- Utsab / The Festival (2001) - Rituparno Ghosh
- Uzak / Distant (2002) - Nuri Bilge Ceylan
V
- Vagabond / Sans Toit ni Loi (1985) - Agnes Varda
- Vai e Vem / Come and Go (2003) - Joao Cesar Monteiro
- Valkyrie (2008) - Bryan Singer
- Varda by Agnes (2019) - Agnes Varda
- Vengeance is Mine (1979) - Shohei Imamura
- Vera Cruz (1954) - Robert Aldrich
- The Verdict (1982) - Sidney Lumet
- La Verite / The Truth (1960) - Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Veronika Voss (1982) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) - Woody Allen
- Videodrome (1983) - David Cronenberg
- Viduthalai Part 1 (2023) - Vetrimaaran
- La Vie de Boheme (1992) - Aki Kaurismaki
- Violette Noziere (1978) - Claude Chabrol
- Violence at Noon (1966) - Nagisa Oshima
- Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others (1974) - Claude Sautet
- The Virgin Spring (1960) - Ingmar Bergman
- Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000) - Hong Sang-soo
- The Virgin Suicides (1999) - Sofia Coppola
- Viridiana (1961) - Luis Bunuel
- Visit, or Memories and Confessions (1982) - Manoel de Oliveira
- Vive L'Amour (1994) - Tsai Ming-Liang
- Vivre Sa Vie / My Life to Live (1962) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Vivre Sa Vie / My Life to Life (1962) - Jean-Luc Godard [REVISIT]
- Vladimir et Rosa (1971) - Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Volver (2006) - Pedro Almodovar
- Vortex (2021) - Gaspar Noe
- Voyage to Cythera (1984) - Theo Angelopoulos
W
- The Wages of Fear (1953) - Henry-Georges Clouzot
- Waiting for the Carnival (2019) - Marcelo Gomes
- Wake Up Love / Despabilate Amor (1996) - Eliseo Subiela
- WALL-E (2008) - Andrew Stanton
- Waltz With Bashir/Vals Im Bashir (2008) - Ari Folman
- Wanted (2008) - Timur Backmambetov
- Warlock (1959) - Edward Dmytryk
- The Warped Ones (1960) - Koreyoshi Kurahara
- Warrior (2011) - Gavin O'Connor
- Water Lilies (2007) - Celine Sciamma
- The Wayward Cloud (2005) - Tsai Ming-Liang
- A Wednesday (2008) - Neeraj Pandey
- Weekend (1967) - Jean-Luc Godard
- Weekend Stories (1996-1997) - Krzysztof Zanussi
- The Weeping Meadow (2003) - Theo Angelopoulos
- Wendy and Lucy (2008) - Kelly Reichardt
- We Need to Talk about Kevin (2011) - Lynne Ramsay
- Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) - Bela Tarr
- We Won't Grow Old Together (1972) - Maurice Pialat
- What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021) - Alenxandre Koberidze
- What Time Is It There? (2001) - Tsai Ming-Liang
- Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) - Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013) - Corneliu Porumbiou
- When Father was Away on Business (1985) - Emir Kusturica
- When They See Us (2019) - Ava DuVernay
- Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987) - Abbas Kiarostami
- Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) - Otto Preminger
- While We're Young (2014) - Noah Baumbach
- While We Watched (2022) - Vinay Shukla
- The Whistlers / La Gomera (2019) - Corneliu Porumbiou
- The White Balloon (1995) - Jafar Panahi
- White Heat (1949) - Raoul Walsh
- The White Ribbon (2009) - Michael Haneke
- The White Sheik (1952) - Federico Fellini
- Who's That Knocking At My Door? (1968) - Martin Scorsese
- The Wild Bunch (1969) - Sam Peckinpah
- The Wild Goose Lake (2019) - Diao Yinan
- The Wild Pear Tree (2018) - Nuri Bilge Cerlan
- Wild Strawberries (1957) - Ingmar Bergman
- Wild Tales (2014) - Damian Szifron
- Winchester '73 (1950) - Anthony Mann
- Wind from the East / Le Vent d'Est (1970) - Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin
- The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) - Ken Loach
- The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) - Abbas Kiarostami
- Wings of Desire (1987) - Wim Wenders
- Winter Light (1962) - Ingmar Bergman
- Winter Sleep (2014) - Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Witness (1985) - Peter Weir
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957) - Billy Wilder
- Woh Lamhe / Those Moments (2005) - Mohit Suri
- The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) - Martin Scorsese
- Woman in the Dunes (1964) - Hiroshi Teshigahara
- The Woman in the Window (1944) - Fritz Lang
- Woman of the Lake (1966) - Yoshishige Yoshida
- The Woman Who Ran (2020) - Hong Sang-soo
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) - Pedro Almodovar
- Wonder Boys (2000) - Curtis Hanson
- The Wonders (2014) - Alice Rohrwacher
- The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) - Elio Petri
- The Worst Person in the World (2021) - Joachim Trier
- Woyzeck (1979) - Werner Herzog
- The Wrestler (2008) - Darren Aronofsky
- Writing with Fire (2021) - Sushmit Ghosh & Rintu Thomas
- The Wrong Move (1975) - Wim Wenders
Y
- Yannick (2023) - Quentin Dupieux
- The Year Before the War (2021) - Davis Simanis
- The Year of the Discovery (2020) - Luis Lopez Carrasco
- Yella (2007) - Christian Petzold
- Yellow Sky (1948) - William A. Wellman
- Yesterday Girl (1966) -Alexander Kluge
- Yi Yi / A One and a Two (2000) - Edward Yang
- Yojimbo / The Bodyguard (1961) - Akira Kurosawa
- You Have to Come and See It (2022) - Jonas Trueba
- Young Ahmed (2019) - Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- You, the Living / Du Levande (2007) - Roy Andersson
- Youth of the Beast (1963) - Seijun Suzuki
- Youth (Spring) - Wang Bing
- You Were Never Really Here (2017) - Lynne Ramsay
- Y Tu Mama Tambien / And Your Mother Too (2001) - Alfonso Cuaron
Z
- Z (1969) - Costa-Gavras
- Z (1969) - Costa-Gavras [REVISIT]
- Zama (2017) - Lucrecia Martel
- Zegen (1987) - Shohei Imamura
- Zelig (1983) - Woody Allen
- Zero Dark Thirty (2012) - Kathryn Bigelow
- 033 (2010) - Birsa Dasgupta
- Zhantai / Platform (2000) - Jia Zhangke
- Zindagi Ek Safar: Kishore Kumar (1989) - Sandip Ray
- Zodiac (2007) - David Fincher
- Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991) - Mika Kaurismaki
- The Zone of Interest (2023) - Jonathan Glazer
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